I had to reinstall Windows the other day and it accidently wiped out my Linux partitions (lucky for backups!). I decided that I would make a Gentoo 2005.0 LiveCD and reinstall Gentoo from there. For a long time I've wanted to use a 2.6 kernel, but I could never get it to work. It seems to be working fine now. I'm trying to set up my sound card by following the Gentoo Alsa Guide. It said that I should check to lspci to see what card I have:
baby root # lspci | grep -i audio 0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04)
and to crossreference that in the Alsa Matrix. The only thing I saw in the Ensoniq printout that ended in 5880 was the CT5880 that uses the ens1371 driver. I added it to my /etc/make.conf:
ALSA_CARDS="ens1371"
The Gentoo Alsa Guide recommended installing alsa-driver even when using
a 2.6 kernel: "we still recommend that you use media-sound/alsa-driver
as they are more up to date than what is provided in the kernel tree."
So I attempted to install alsa-driver:
baby root # emerge alsa-driver Calculating dependencies ...done!
emerge (1 of 1) media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.8 to / md5 src_uri ;-) alsa-driver-1.0.8.tar.bz2
* Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source directory: * /usr/src/linux * Found sources for kernel version: * 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options * ALSA is already compiled into the kernel. * Please check to make sure these options are set correctly. * Once you have satisfied these options, please try merging * this package again.
!!! ERROR: media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.8 failed. !!! Function check_extra_config, Line 430, Exitcode 0 !!! Incorrect kernel configuration options !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.
I used genkernel to compile my kernel, so this wouldn't be a kernel misconfiguration problem, would it? Is it normal for alsa-driver to fail to compile? I'm going to continue with the next step in the Gentoo Alsa Guide...
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I set up ALSA this way:
I compiled the kernel manually, and removed support for both ALSA and OSS. I didn't even compile the modules. Then I simply followed the Gentoo Docs, ie, the make.conf thing, the emerge thing and then rc-update. Worked perfectly.
As you can see from that error message, it isn't compiling the ALSA drivers because you've compiled them in the kernel.
Oh, btw, I couldn't get ALSA working with Genkernel. Well, that was my trial Gentoo build.. the very first one, which was Stage 3. After that, my second build was Stage 1 and manually compiled the kernel. ALSA, KDE.. everything worked fine the second time :)
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