Soundcards Revisited

[Alex Snow]

So I need to rebuild my kernel?
Dammit! Well better get started if I want it to finish by the time the 4.x
kernels come out...:-)

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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Toby Fisher wrote:

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> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Alex Snow wrote:
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> > Hi.  It seems to work fine with oss but alsa still won't load.  I'm
> > passing the irq and i/o address on the command line but it doesn't load.
> > I get the same thing about no such device /lib/modules/2.4.18/misc/bla bla
> > bla.
>
> This is probably because you have OSS drivers as modules.
>
> In order for alsa to work, you must build the kernel saying yes to sound,
> but then no to everything else.  Then build alsa drivers, libs and utils
> against those kernel sources.
>
> Your modules then should be in the directory:
>
> /lib/modules/kernel.version.number/kernel/sound
>
> For example, my SB Live card, which is a pci card, has one of its modules
> at:
> /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.o
>
> This is using version 0.9.0beta12 of alsa, so this may vary, but I thik
> this is the location for the later versions of alsa, though I think the
> path you gave sounds right for 0.5.12A which I think you said you were
> using.
> In addition, make sure that *all* of the oss modules are gone before you
> try using the alsa driver modules.
>
> HTH
>
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