So I shouldn't worry about using alsasound and alsa-utils? I've got sound in some places...
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 00:37 +0000, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Saturday 12 February 2005 23:21, Holly Bostick wrote: > > But he's using a 2.4 series kernel, with the alsa-driver package. > > Isn't the whole point that the alsa module is compiled by the > > package during emerge? But it isn't, if the alsa module is > > ens1371, which refused to compile... wait a minute. > > > > I think I see where we're going with this, let me start from the > > beginning and work it through (somewhat) logically. > > > > OK. The original problem was that the alsa-driver wouldn't > > compile with the "wrong" card specified (because the card name > > was wrong in /etc/make.conf). While trying to compile > > alsa-driver, modprobe would load the OSS driver (from the 2.4 > > kernel, since that was what was available), and not the alsa > > driver (because that does not exist in the 2.4 kernel, and the > > alsa-driver package was not yet compiled). > > > > Fine. We got all that straightened out, and yet we do not have > > alsa sound, or in fact any sound at all. > > > > Is it possible that this is because 1) Michael still has the OSS > > drivers enabled in the kernel, and 2) the kernel drivers are > > loading on boot, so 3) alsasound cannot load the alsa driver for > > this card because there is already a driver loaded for this card, > > and 4) Michael has changed all his applications and sound servers > > to use ALSA (which is not loaded)? > > > > I would 1) do a modprobe -r es1371 to unload the OSS driver, then > > 2) modprobe snd-ens1371 to see if the alsa driver loads at all. > > If it does, then I would disable OSS in the kernel, recompile and > > reboot, at which point it should all work. If it doesn't load, we > > need to find out where the stupid module is and what's wrong with > > it. > > > > Am I on the right track here? > > Oooops again - aaagh, 2.4 kernel, yes. I suspect you are on the > right track Holly. > > Michael, I only used the OSS drivers with that card - I found then > superior to the ALSA ones. > -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list