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
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