Re: alsa sound

[Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de>]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 08:00:12PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: 

> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:25:49 +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> >Which kernel-version do you use? In newer versions there is a emu10k1
> >module in the sound section so you don't need alsa at all.
> >Before the kernel-module I used alsa too but I compiled it from source
> >and followed the instructions from the alsa-mini-howto and never had
> >any problems.
> >Phil
> 
> I was running 2.4.1 with the module from the kernel - and then I
> couldn't get sound to work because all the documentation I could find
> (including in the kernel) couldn't tell me how to get the module
> loaded.  In the end, I did a kernel recompile and started it and it
> seemed to destroy the root partition filesystem, so ...

modprobe emu10k1

> So ...  I am now running 2.2.18pre21, and the alsa .debs are all the
> versions that use those kernel headers.

I think the 2.2.18pre-series have the emu10k1 module included. Install
the kernel-source and do:

$su
$cd /usr/src/linux
$make menuconfig

Select the emu10k1 module in the "Sound"-section by typing "m"

$make modules modules_install
$modprobe emu10k1

Phil