Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

[Joshua Schmidlkofer]

more specifically is now an "Intel HD Audio" at the very bottom of the alsa PCI devices list

thanks,
 joshua

On 10/13/05, Joshua Schmidlkofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Your using the wrongr driver.  There is a kernel 'High def' driver in 2.6.13

On 10/13/05, Michael Sullivan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:25 -0700, gentuxx wrote:
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> >I'm trying to set up ALSA on my new computer. I ran lspci to find out
> >what sound card I had:
> >
> >camille ~ # lspci -v | grep -i 'audio'
> >0000:00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
> >Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
> >
> >Then I cross-referenced it in the ALSA Matrix. I found (I think) that I
> >should be using the intel8x0 driver. The Matrix page said that I should
> >modprobe snd-card-intel8x0, but when I do that it comes up missing:
> >
> >camille ~ # modprobe snd-card-intel8x0
> >FATAL: Module snd_card_intel8x0 not found.
> >
> >I'm pretty sure I have support for the module compiled into the kernel.
> >What should I do?
> >
> Double check the kernel config.  Also, when you check the kernel
> config, make sure that you have it as a module, instead of being built
> into the kernel itself.  This card has done some funky stuff for me.
> It works, but not the way I would expect it to.  The standard test:
> "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp" works fine as the normal user, but I
> don't get any of the "blips and whirrs" in my normal user account,
> that I do with root.  Hopefully, YMWV.  ;-)  I think I also had to
> emerge alsa-utils.  You may want to check that out.
>
> - --
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Can anyone tell me what my card would be listed as in the kernel config
file?  I could grep for that...

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