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