Re: alsaconf problem (alsa-base package not properly installed)

From: Pollywog (linux-debian_at_shadypond.com)
Date: 02/28/05

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    Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:44:59 +0000
    
    

    On Sunday 27 February 2005 11:12 pm, Erdi Balint wrote:
    > Hi everyone,
    >
    > I spent some hours trying to figure out why the alsa related modules are
    > not loaded in the kernel when I installed all alsa packages (alsa-base,
    > alsa-utils, ...) without remarkable results. When I try to run alsaconf,
    > it exits with the error-message:
    >
    > "alsaconf
    > modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
    > modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
    > modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
    > Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).
    > Building card database...
    > No card database. Aborting.
    > "
    > I haven't found any traces of alsa modules in the kernel although I
    > followed the steps described on the alsa-project.com website.
    >
    > Could someone give me a hand with this or had similar experience? I have
    > 2.4.27-1-386 kernel version, unstable release and I should use the
    > snd-intel8x0 module for my sound card.

    I have an onboard soundcard (on the mobo) and it uses the same driver.
    As I recall, when I was using 2.4.x kernels, I had to apt-get an alsa-source
    package and compile it after compiling the kernel, but there should be stock
    modules for stock kernels if you want to avoid compiling your own.

    I am using a 2.6.x kernel and all I had to do to get everything working (I had
    sound from the first time I booted but no oss-emu, for example) was install
    the packages alsa-utils and alsa-base and then run alsaconf.

    'apt-cache search alsa-modules' shows:
    alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-386 - ALSA driver modules
    alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-586tsc - ALSA driver modules
    alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-686 - ALSA driver modules
    alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-686-smp - ALSA driver modules
    alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-k6 - ALSA driver modules
    alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-k7 - ALSA driver modules
    alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-k7-smp - ALSA driver modules

    Do you have one of those installed?

    Instead of getting one of those, you could get

    alsa-source - ALSA driver sources

    and compile your own.

    You might have to put the modules you want to load in /etc/modules, I don't
    recall whether I had to do that, I believe that the necessary aliases were
    added to /etc/modutils/alsa when I installed the modules packages.

    8)

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