On 29-Jan-02, R. Orie & Rebecca Browne wrote: > I have an IBM Thinkpad T21 (CS461x sound). I installed the sound > drivers using alsaconf in SuSE 7.3 - no problem. However, I've > switched to Slackware 8 and am having difficulty with the sound. I was > able to install the driver, lib and utils files, but still can't get > it to work. I think I need to do some work with the kernel, but I > don't really know where to start. I'm supposed to install soundcore???
Right. Having installed ALSA 0.9 on Slackware 8, here's hoping I can help... First off, you need to rebuild (and reconfigure) your kernel. cd to /usr/src/linux and (as root), do a "make menuconfig" (if in text mode) or "make xconfig" if in X. Under "Sound support", the first option should be something like "Enable sound support". Set this to "M" for "M"odule. Disable any other sound drivers below - you won't need them. Slack 8 also comes with devfs installed by default. Personally I found this more hassle than it was worth for now, so if you look under "Filesystems" (I think - it may be elsewhere) and disable devfs, that'll help. (From what other people here have said, you can probably get it working under devfs by telling the kernel to mount devfs at boot-time and then editing devfsd.conf appropriately. One of these days I'll take the time to learn...) Exit and save your configuration. Then do "make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install && make bzlilo" Assuming that all works, reboot with your new kernel and then follow the installation instructions with the ALSA driver. (Build it; make install; edit modules.conf; depmod -a; run ./snddevices; modprobe the ALSA modules) Hope this helps... -- Adam Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(http://www.yggdrasl.demon.co.uk/) .oO("Oi stop mailing to this newsgroup - your not aloud." ) PGP public key: http://www.yggdrasl.demon.co.uk/pubkey.asc _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
