baby src # modprobe snd-ens1371
modprobe: Can't locate module snd-ens1371
baby src # modprobe ens1371
modprobe: Can't locate module ens1371
baby src # modprobe es1371
baby src #


On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 16:56 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > I've been doing manual emerge updates (a.k.a not cron) for awhile now
> > because emerge kept wanting to update alsa-driver to 1.0.8-r1 and the
> > compile kept failing.  This morning I actually looked closely at the
> > beginning of the emerge of alsa-driver and noticed a message that said
> > ${ALSA_CARD} NOT DEFINED; COMPILING ALL DRIVERS (or something like
> > that.)  I remembered awhile back that someone on this list had a
> > similiar problem and that someone told them that the driver compile
> > would fail if the hardware the driver was for did not exist on the
> > system.  I found the Gentoo Alsa Guide online and it said that I should
> > find out what my soundcard was and cross-reference it with the Alsa
> > Soundcard Matrix.  I did that.  I'm not sure I understood the
> > information the Matrix provided, but this is what I think it means:
> > 
> > baby root # lspci | grep 'audio'
> > 0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04)
> > 
> > 
> > The Matrix (to the best of my understanding) said that I would use the
> > es1371 driver for my sound card.  
> > 
> > I entered that in /etc/make.conf:
> > ALSA_CARDS="es1371"
> > 
> > I ran emerge -u alsa-driver.  Just before it fails, it says:
> > 
> > checking for which soundcards to compile driver for... configure: error:
> > Unknown soundcard es1371
> > 
> > Did I give the wrong driver?  I think I got it right.  Also mentioned in
> > the Alsa Soundcard Matrix were ens1371 and snd-es1371, but I modprobed
> > both of those and didn't find them.  I successfully modprobed es1371...
> > 
> 
> According to make menuconfig, this module is (snd-)ens1371, not es1371. 
> Typo, thus?
> 
> HTH,
> Holly
> 
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