From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PwDpj-0004ec-0S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:17:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 531FA1C028; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FEEE1C028 for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyd10 with SMTP id 10so2298678gyd.40 for ; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:15:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.183.162 with SMTP id q22mr1339231yhm.87.1299417323128; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:15:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from satcidananda (adsl-152-87-140.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.87.140]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u49sm977868yhn.37.2011.03.06.05.15.21 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:15:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 08:08:48 -0500 From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound Message-ID: <20110306130848.GA308@satcidananda> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d5c6458020706f30ff902c755b1ef011 In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > --nextPart2016980.EoLg6xAmlW > Content-Type: Text/Plain; > charset=3D"us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sunday 06 March 2011 09:28:39 Dale wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> > On Saturday 26 February 2011 21:53:52 walt wrote: >> >> There is a very recent post from someone (Walter?) that says he got >> >> audio only after compiling all the kernel sound features as modules= , >> >> but he has no idea why (nor do I) but, as no one yet has a better i= dea, >> >> I'd try it as an experiment. >> >=3D20 >> > Because alsaconf needs to probe one module at a time and set its >> > parameters. >>=3D20 >> Just to confuse things more, I have the same driver for my sound and I >> build everything into my kernel and always have. The sound worked as >> soon as I unmuted it. >>=3D20 >> root@fireball / # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep REALTEK >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=3D3Dy >> root@fireball / # >>=3D20 >> Weird huh? > > Like you, I used to build the lot into the kernel for years and it work= ed=3D20 > fine. Suddenly it stopped. With no other discernible changes at the t= ime =3D > to=3D20 > blame for this I raised a bug. The devs recommended that I should buil= d al=3D > sa=3D20 > as modules and that fixed the problem. I haven't yet tried to go back = to=3D20 > building it all in the kernel to see if it would still work. >=3D2D-=3D20 > Regards, > Mick > Same thing happened here, I used to build support for my sound card into=20 the kernel but it stopped working a few months ago. Rebuilding the kernel without the built-in sound drivers and using the modules instead works now. ISTR that years ago it was the opposite, which is why I got=20 in the habit of building kernels with alsa drivers built-in. The odd thing is I didn't see any news about it, nor was the internet=20 packed with people suddenly having alsa problems, so I never knew what exactly happened.=20 --=20 caveat utilitor=20 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB=20