On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:46:06PM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote:
Howdy!
Does someone know what's wrong with my alsa? I installed the module
sources and all other important alsa packages.
I compile my own kernel and use emu10k1 for sound. Now I just moved the
module away. Do I have to disable it in the kernel and recompile?
Now I compiled ALSA "on top" of my current kernel.
Standard disclaimer: I'm no sort of an expert. If my information is
wrong, then I hope someone will correct me.
What I've read somewhere, and is hopefully accurate and current, is that
in order to make ALSA happy:
1) You must have core sound support installed (in my case it's the module
'soundcore' but I suspect you could have it compiled-in).
2) You must *not* have any other sound *drivers* installed. So if the
driver you were using before was a module, unload it, if it was
compiled-in... I guess you'd have to recompile without it.
3) Dunno if this is relevant to your case, but I'm using alsa from binary
debs, and it required me to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel.
And, umm, I doubt I need to mention it, but you do have your ALSA emu10k1.o
module compiled and in its appropriate place in the modules directory,
right?
ALSA is horribly documented, if it's gonna be the next de facto standard
they have to shape up...
Absolutely right. After I *finally* got it to work, the sound is great;
but I found f*&%-all documentation for it. Only with the great help of a
few people on this list, and some google results from other mailing lists,
did I manage to get it going.
I still have no clue what the 'options' in /etc/alsa/modutils/ are for... I
just know that if I exclude them it works, but if I leave them in it
doesn't.
HTH
-Chris