Re: 2.6 kernel

From: Keith Clark (clarkphotography_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/17/03 

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:28:28 -0800

"Jeremiah D. Powell" wrote:

> Jeff Allain wrote:
>
> > According to Yast, I have Alsa installed. Any more ideas on what to check,
> > or more specifically, what modules are required for Alsa? Thanks...
> >
>
> If you custom compiled your kernel (from src rpms) you should get sound,
> soundcore, snd, and the others from the lsmod. There is no alsa module
> (there is a sound-oss module, though.)
>
> I don't know the specifics for your sound card (I have always stayed with
> the SoundBlaster line and use some custom lines in /etc/modules.conf.local)
> but http://www.alsa.org has some very good documentation. I recommend
> getting and building their latest libs no matter what kernel (2.4 or 2.6)
> you are using. They have fixes for kmix that make mixers other than
> alsamixer actually work. And building the source gets you some nifty tools
> for automating the /sys and the /dev entry creation stuff, which is just
> tedious.
>
> You probably want to make bin rpms and use SuSE rpm or yast or kpackage or
> whatever to manage the installed files, though. Not everybody has enough
> free time to manually track random file.
>
> Oh, one bit of warning, unlike OSS the ALSA drivers always start up with the
> mixer's volume set to 0. You can change this and save your settings, but
> it is one of the major problems (along with not understanding that /dev/dsp
> and /dev/dmix are not really *hardware* anymore) listed at http:/
> www.alsa.org.
>
> Jeremiah

I had to compile my Soundblaster driver into the 2.6 kernel (yes I use ALSA too)
in order to get it to work.

--Keith

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