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Re: alsa and amd64 arch



On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:07:20AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Hi all,
> I already sent this message to debian.user but no response over there so I
> thought I'd try here. 
> I finally plucked up my courage and put in another hard disk and
> installed 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 which is running independently of my i386
> installation. Loads of problems but perhaps the easiest is what do I do
> to get my architecture into /etc/modutils/arch and/or /etc/modprobe.d/arch?
> I can't install the alsa drivers because although alsa finds the correct
> card and driver snd_via82xx, it whinges about not finding
> the amd64 architecture as shown here:
> Running update-modules...
> Architecture-specific modutils configuration not found, using defaults
> Loading driver...
> Setting default volumes...

Are you running i386 or amd64 version of sarge?  The amd64 kernel exists
in both, but things have to be done a bit differently if running amd64
kernel on i386 install.

Len Sorensen



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