Soundcards Revisited

Mon Jan 27 16:19:08 EST 2003

Actually, if you have the OSS drivers and soundcore as either a module or 
built-in, you'll be fine.  Just make sure that the OSS drivers for your 
soundcard aren't *loaded* before trying to load the ALSA drivers.  If your 
OSS drivers are built right into the kernel, I don't know of a way around 
re-compiling your kernel.

          HTH.
-- 
          Bill in Denver

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Alex Snow wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > > 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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