From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21294 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Jun 2003 12:49:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 21223 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2003 12:49:08 -0000 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 15:48:56 +0300 (EEST) From: Ovidiu Ghinet To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [gentoo-dev] About alsa-driver X-Archives-Salt: c20e975d-c02f-4163-b46e-a892ee1c8802 X-Archives-Hash: 399a2de770a22a99e5c2ab3d5cc4dba8 Sorry to pop in without preliminary apointment :)) I have a small suggestion about alsa-driver You see i have two kernels 2.4.21 and 2.5.72, more to say is that i have configured sound for my pci card (cs4281) buid in, NOT as a module this maked me think that: /etc/init.d/alsasound: must be modified to not check for /proc/asound /etc/init.d/alsasound: must be modified to try to modprobe snd-somethings only with 2.4 kernels and only for 2.5 kernels with sound drivers compiled as modules (witch is not an optional thing to do even if you do the following IMPORTANT change) /etc/init.d/alsasound: SHOULD BE PART OF THE alsa-utils NOT FROM alsa-driver And i say that because: - if we run 2.5 kernels there is no need to install those modules that alsa-driber ebuild anyway will not succed in compiling if no 2.4.x sources founded in /usr/src/linux... making people scream and shout... - /etc/init.d/alsasound needs "alsactl" anyway on boths kernel aproches... /etc/modules.d/alsa: remains a problematic issue we can leave it to "alsa-driver" in the hope that if the user knows how to compile a 2.5.x kernel with alsa drivers as modules, NOT build in, will also know how to make a /etc/modules.d/alsa but BETTER to not asume such things /etc/modules.d/alsa in my opinion can also be part of "alsa-utils" In my virtually reality mind i think that making /etc/init.d/alsasound part of "alsa-utils" and /etc/modules.d/alsa part of "alsa-driver" can make our life easier (if we want 2.5.x kernel THAT WILL BE SOON 2.6 so... HURRY UP MY FRIEND) Ovidiu Ghinet -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list