On Thursday 07 January 2010 16:47:35 Sean Dague wrote:
On 01/07/2010 03:50 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
> A few days ago I reinstalled my laptop with Debian amd64. I installed
> KDE4, which installed phonon. All the sound functions I've tried work
> so
> far, but I just noticed that ALSA isn't installed, nor are any of the
> ALSA kernel modules loaded. I'm glad everything works, but.... why
> does
> it work? :-P I thought ALSA was generally a requirement?
What modules are loaded? That might help narrow things down.
-Sean
It may not help much, as this is a custom kernel that minimizes the list
of
modules -- but anything sound related is not built-in if possible:
$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
**SNIPS**
snd_hda_codec_analog 80312 1
snd_hda_intel 29160 3
snd_hda_codec 88696 2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 9888 1 snd_hda_codec
**SNIPS**
The above are ALSA drivers for your hardware (Intel HD, generally the
successor to AC '97). What modules did you expect to see?
You may not have the ALSA utilities installed, but that doesn't mean
anything. You just obviously won't be able to do some ALSA stuff, like
combining channels and giving them a custom name. You don't need the ALSA
user space tools to have sound. Any mixer will work, for example.
-Frank
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