I emerge alsa-utils. At the end of the emerge it told me that I needed to manually configure /etc/modules.d/alsa. I opened it up in vim and looked at it. It didn't make much sense to me, except one comment that said:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) ## and then run `update-modules' command. ## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. I looked back at the Gentoo Alsa Guide (which I still had open) and I changed the snd-card-0 alias to ens1371: ## ALSA portion alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371 ## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 ## OSS/Free portion ## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 ## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 ## I found it a little curious that snd-card-1 was already set to snd-ens1371, but since it was commented out I left it, exited and ran modules-update. It gave me this output: baby root # modules-update depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.26-gentoo-r15/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_sil.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.26-gentoo-r15/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_svw.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.26-gentoo-r15/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_via.o Do I have something set wrong? It occurred to me that snd-card-1 was already set to snd-ens1371 because the original sound card that came in this PC was a VIA Technologies card (this PC is an old HP Pavilion and I think that the VIA card was mounted on the motherboard. It failed every other reboot and sometimes while someone was logged in, so I took it to the shop and had them install a more reliable sound card and to disable the VIA in the BIOS.) Is there something else I need to change to get this to work? I didn't find the /usr/share/doc/alsa-driver-1.0.1-rc1/INSTALL file very helpful - I didn't see anything in there about customizing /etc/modules.d/alsa for a specific sound card, though I did see the section on autoloading sound card drivers for 2.4 kernels. I use kernel 2.4.26-gentoo-r15... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
