Re: Need some sound advice - SB Live!
At 11:04 AM 3/20/2002 +0000, Alan James wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:44:23PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
>>
>> I think I need soundcore, but I'm not clear what kernel config I should
>> use to build it. I'm not clear if I need ALSA or OSS in addition.
>>
>> fgrep SOUND /boot/config-2.4.17 | grep -v ^#
>> CONFIG_SOUND=y
>
>Thats why you dont have a soundcore module. You've built soundcore into the
>kernel. If you changed that y to m you'd get the module version.
Oh, ok, so that's "soundcore". But is that a problem -- will startup
scripts expect soundcore to be a module?
I got xmms to work, finally. I had added moseley to the "audio" group, but
I didn't run "groups" to see that the system knew that fact! After
rebooting this morning it started to work. I'd like to know why rebooting
was needed. I had done
# adduser moseley audio
Ok, so xmms runs but complains that libmikmod.so.2 is missing. Need to
look into that.
It's using it's own OSS output driver it would seem.
/usr/lib/xmms/Output/libOSS.so
So, can someone explain if and why I might need something like OSS or ALSA
installed?
I while back I did install alsa-base and alsa-utils, but trying to run
/etc/init.d/alsa start I get
bumby:~# /etc/init.d/alsa start
No ALSA driver installed
Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module snd
failed.
So parts are still missing.
1) Do I need ALSA?
2) If so why?
3) What do I need to get it working?
Thanks very much to everyone that responded!
Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley@hank.org
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