On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Stephen Mollett wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday 05 June 2006 03:20, Claude Yu wrote: >> When Linux bootup, building processes showed 2 errors in [FATAL] flags >> 1. Starting ALSA version 1.0.9b: (riptide) start servicce sound >> (Y)/(N)/(C) ? (Y) Loading sound module(snd-riptide) FATAL: Module >> snd-riptide not found Fatal: Error running install command for snd-riptide >> [Fatal] > > Sounds like the snd-riptide.ko file isn't installed. Perhaps Mandrake > (Mandriva?) doesn't include this driver by default, or you need to install an > extra alsa-drivers package to get it? (I'm not a Mandrake user so I don't > know how they structure their packages.)
snd-riptide came into alsa with 1.0.10 I believe. Mandriva 2006 uses kernel 2.6.12 which uses alsa 1.0.9 > > It's not worth bothering with alsa 0.3 or 0.4; they're very out of date and And do not include riptide. > it's likely that none of the programs that came with Mandrake 2006 will work > with them even if you can get them to install. I'd suggest removing them and > reinstalling the Mandrake alsa-* packages. > > If you're going to install the drivers manually (it shouldn't really be > necessary if Mandrake have done their job properly), you'll need to get ??? Do you mean the kernel developers? Mandriva does not remove modules. > alsa-drivers-1.0.11.tar.bz2 (you might as well use the latest version) from > the ftp site then configure it using the --with-cards=riptide option. It > would also be a good idea, if you're doing it this way, to get the latest > versions of alsa-lib and alsa-utils to go with the drivers. > > Remember, though, that if you do it manually, it'll break when the kernel gets > updated and will need reinstalling manually again, so you're probably better > off using official RPMs if you can. > > Hope this helps, > Stephen > > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
