There's some problems with it in the kernel, you should use the alsadriver emerged instead, I believe all you need is compile the modules for it. The only way I could get it to work was strip it from the kernel and compile it as modules, along with alsadriver.
Good luck, On 6/29/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still working to get my recently reinstalled Gentoo system up to its > former glory. I cannot get my sound to work though. I'm following (or > rather trying to) the Gentoo Alsa Guide > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml) . It says to run lspci to > find out what sound card I'm using: > > baby ~ # lspci -v | grep -i audio > 0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04) > > > I looked at the Alsa Matrix and the only entry it has for Ensoniq is > ens1371 (which, according to my backups is what I was using before and > it worked fine then). I'm using a genkernel, 2.6 kernel, so I assume > that ALSA is compiled into it already. However, when I run alsaconf it > finds no cards whatsoever. This all worked before I reinstalled Gentoo > and although I have a complete backup of my /etc directory before the > reinstall I hesitate to use it (bad experiences in the past) and prefer > to use it instead as a guide. What am I doing wrong? > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
