Hi grant, > > All this extra stuff is being done on the off-chance that sound wasn't > working because alsa was compiled into the kernel instead of as a > module. Why would alsa work as a module, but not when built into the > kernel? Avoiding all of this is one of the reasons I moved up to 2.6. >
Just to avoid extra work for my self, I have two rules I follow - all sound/v4l drivers are compiled as modules. And all ethernet drivers are compiled into the kernel. This is not to say that they don't work the other way. But there are certain drivers that don't and I don't want to remember which they are. Thus, yes, alsa is always best compiled as a module and not in the kernel. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
