Re: Setting up sound - alsa config
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:40:19 +0100, Punit Ahluwalia wrote:
> 1. Should I build the support for sound card in the kernel or should
> I load it as a module?
You are conflating two questions.
1a. Should you build the ALSA drivers integrally or as modules?
1b. Should you build the ALSA drivers from the Linux source tree or from
the alsa-driver source tree?
Answers:
1a. Building them as modules gives you more flexibility. E.g., you can
replace them without rebooting.
1b. The alsa-driver source tree is usually more up to date that the Linux
source tree and so his usually to be preferred.
> 2. Do I need to enable OSS in the kernel? I am running 2.6.7.
You don't need to build any OSS drivers.
However, you might want to build ALSA's OSS-compatibility drivers.
> 3. Will alsaconf do the job or some other step needs to be taken
> besides loading support for the sound card in the kernel?
Install the alsa-base package (version 1.0.8-4) and the packages on which
it Depends.
Sergio Basurto Juarez <sbasurtoj@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if you needed but if you compile your
> kernel with oss then you must install alsa-oss
The alsa-oss package allows you to run applications that work with OSS
drivers on a system that only has ALSA drivers and no ALSA
OSS-compatibility drivers. See the long description of the alsa-oss
1.0.8-1 package for a slightly longer explanation.
--
Thomas Hood
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