Holly Bostick wrote:
> James schreef:
>>##  ALSA portion
>>## alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave
>>## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
>>##  OSS/Free portion
>>## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>>## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
> 
> All these entries are commented out, and not replicated later in the file.
> This can't be right.

But he compiled the VIA driver in-kernel (note the <*> in the .config),
not as a module, so /etc/modules.d/alsa is basically ignored.

> In my experience, the alsasound script vastly prefers that
> all possible components (excepting snd and alsa itself) be loaded as
> modules either just prior to, or during the loading of the script.

Not in mine :-). I don't have modules support enabled in my both my
kernels (x86 and amd64) and ALSA works fine. I guess YMMV.

> Anyway, the reason you don't have any sound cards is likely both because
> you don't have the modules loaded, and because you haven't told alsa
> that you have a card that needs modules loaded for it (alias
> snd-card-0). Fix that up, and it should work OK.

Again, I am not sure that is true, since he compiled the VIA in-kernel,
not as module.

raf
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