Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

[Andrew Heberle]

I would seriously suggest going to the Gentoo website (www.gentoo.org) 
and reading all the documentation, then check out the forums 
(forums.gentoo.org) and read the frequently asked questions.

As a general rule you don't download any sources, or compile anything 
manually.  That is all handled by emerge, the only package(s) that 
require manual compilation are the kernel ebuilds.

To get sound working just follow the instructions in the Gentoo Linux 
ALSA Guide, it provides all the steps needed to get sound working.  Do 
NOT download patches/sources etc, that defeats the whole purpose of Gentoo.

--
Andrew Heberle
"My life is a soap opera, but who has the rights?"
        -- MadameX
Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Robert,

Thanks for your detail advice and link.

The 1st problem encountered is to untar the package as follows;

# mkdir /home/satimis/kernel
downloaded
patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2   patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2
from kernel.org
# cd /home/satimis/kernel
# tar jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
# tar -jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
# tar jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
# tar -jxvf patch-2.6.0-test8-bk1.bz2
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Could not proceed further.  Kindly advise.

Thanks in advance.

B.R.
Stephen


Robert Crawford wrote:

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 12:50 pm, Stephen Liu wrote:
 

Hi Robert,
  


 

use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p alsa-driver, and you se the 
latest
is I seem to remember 0.9.7.
      


 

# emerge search kernel
* sys-kernel/genkernel   Latest version 1.8
From kernel.org
The latest beta version of the Linux kernel is:  *2.6.0-test8
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.0-test8.bz2>*
Can I upgrade it from the tarball to be download from kernel.org site?
Please give me more information about which Gentoo forum.  I have been
looking around for this topic.
  
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Stephen,
Here's the linkd to the Official Gentoo furum- It's huge, and you get 
great info for anything imaginable.

http://forums.gentoo.org/

Here's the link to a post I made on kernel 2.6.0-testx's, and 
installing it from vanilla source, with a step by step foolproof 
method, that never touches your present kernel setup.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=97910&highlight=

Since you mentioned alsa sound, you need to compile alsa stuff 
directly into the kernel, not as modules. My .config alsa section from 
2.6.0-test8-mm1 is shown below, but you might like to say "Y" to more 
items than I did, and in the subsequent sound sections, say "Y" for 
your particular hardware. Then you should emerge alsa-utils and 
probably alsa-mixer, but don't emerge the Gentoo alsa drivers, because 
the 2.6 kernel provides those itself.

Robert Crawford

#
# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
#
CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
# CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
# CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS is not set
# CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS is not set
CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=y
# CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set
# CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set
 



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