After some tedious trial-and-error testing, the offending kernel option
was: CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. I have 1GB of RAM in my machine. By unsetting
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G, Alsa works but I can only use 896 MB.
Chris
Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Chris Radlinski wrote:
If I use one of Slackware's prebuilt ker
Thank you for your reply. The main differences between my kernel and
the default kernel are the processor type (Athlon vs. 486--though I
tried recompiling as a 486 with no joy) and less support for various
kinds of hardware. I enabled what I thought was the minimum required
for my system. Ne
Chris Radlinski wrote:
> If I use one of Slackware's prebuilt kernels, alsa runs just
> great. When I build a custom kernel, all of the alsa modules load
> just fine but I get "Input/output error" when trying to use aplay.
> From scanning the list archives, I surmise this indicates some
> kind of
I'm running Slackware 9.1 on a Shuttle SK41G (VIA 8235 sound chip) with
Alsa 0.9.6. If I use one of Slackware's prebuilt kernels, alsa runs
just great. When I build a custom kernel, all of the alsa modules load
just fine but I get "Input/output error" when trying to use aplay. From
scanning
