On 16:08 Wed 04 Feb , Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > If I emerge a 2.6.1 kernel, but then compile it with sound support but do > NOT enable any Alsa options, will emerge believe I have Alsa installed? > > I NEED to upgrade Alsa and run with 2.6.1. I caught a post on a different > list where someone said they did this on a non-Gentoo system. It would seem > to me that portage/emerge doesn't keep track of what options I enable in the > kernel, so as long as I build Alsa on the side using the newest CVS and run > it with my non-Alsa Gentoo 2.6.1 kernel it should work. > > Does anyone see any problems? > > Do I need to emerge anything else to make this work?
You can either compile ALSA into the kernel or as a module with 2.6.1. I compiled it into the kernel and it works fine. According to tappas at #alsa, compiling it as a module gives more flexibility and makes it easier to troubleshoot. I believe you will need to emerge alsa-utils to get the /etc/modules.d/alsa file which you will need to config. You need to load the module, of course. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
