How to install drivers on Linux Mint 19.1 from C-Media 8738LX sound card?

Question

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Hello. Help me install a driver on Mint I
have an old PC with Mint 19.1 installed and the drivers have been updated to the latest via the package manager. The PC is rebooted but the Sonic Card only outputs sound to one speaker, although the built-in sound card outputs sound to both speakers.
From the sound card there is a disk with drivers there in a folder called LINUX there is apparently firewood and installation instructions, but even after I translated I can’t draw up the correct action plan for myself, what and how to do ...
Here is what is written in the README file according to installation on LINUX https://pastebin.com/QH5wUL4C
There are also 2 files named release.txt and cmpci-5.68.tar.gz
Please help me figure it out, I smoked forums on this topic, but everywhere it’s just like firewood from a video card, and it’s certainly simple there, but I don’t know how to act in this case ...
Thank you in advance to everyone who will respond.

Answer 1

What is not clear there, you need to install packages for building kernel modules (such as kernel-headers, make, gcc).
Then unzip to a folder, go to it and execute:

make config
make modules
make modules_install

and add it to the list of loadable modules.
In general, the process is quite difficult for a beginner, because they will most likely stumble over make config and have to fix incompatibility errors.
Somehow I even rewrote 10 percent of the source code to make it work - the libraries have been updated, the set of parameters in the functions has changed - tin.