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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
