Re: What kernel module for "Sound Max Digital Audio"?
Kent West wrote:
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> > > > > <snip concerning Kent's inability to get sound out of AC'97/intel810 integrated sound on a Gateway E3400 using ALSA>
I got rid of anything I could find dealing with alsa, both via
apt/dselect and my earlier attempt at manually compiling/installing the
modules.
Then used apt-get to install the alsa-source package.
Then I verified that my environment variable MODULE_LOC was still set to
/usr/src/local/modules.
I unzipped the alsa....tar.gz file to /usr/src/local, which created
/usr/src/local/modules/alsa-driver and all the stuff below it.
I then cd'd to /usr/src/linux (which is a symlink to
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.2).
I then ran "make-kpkg modules_image".
Then finding a new .deb in /usr/src, I cd'd to that directory and did a
"dpkg -i alsa....deb". After installing, it asked if I wanted to run
alsaconf now. I answered yes.
This generated a few lines of text before bringing up debconf; a later
run with "2>error.log" caught the messages, which were:
> touch: creating `/etc/alsa/modutils/0.5': No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5: No such file or directory
> modprobe: Can't locate module snd
> cat: /proc/asound/version: No such file or directory
> expr: syntax error
> grep: /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5: No such file or directory
> grep: /etc/alsa/modutils/0.5: No such file or directory
> mv: cannot create regular file `/etc/alsa/modutils/0.5': No such file or directo
> ry
> modprobe: Can't locate module snd
> The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.
Within alsaconf, I selected the intel8x0 card, and accepted all the
defaults. After debconf finished, it displayed the following:
> Loading driver:
> Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module snd
> no devfs available (even though using the kernel with devfs).
> Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50%
> The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.
> Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably
> not detected correctly.
I'm leaning more and more to Gateway having shipped a "winhardware"
sound system on this motherboard.
Thanks for any help!
Kent
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