From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BBD21381F3 for ; Sat, 18 May 2013 15:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C11DE08D2; Sat, 18 May 2013 15:55:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f179.google.com (mail-we0-f179.google.com [74.125.82.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D18F9E0877 for ; Sat, 18 May 2013 15:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f179.google.com with SMTP id m46so36663wev.24 for ; Sat, 18 May 2013 08:55:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=XBkd7mmHqAoIimKNVU/5aNUv035a3lzt4xRrcwdqJQQ=; b=JaxP+VBnaCUqEcUhzim2JlOYBrNt/mde0AzWjWIg4oLUKWCINS2mOMASayE1InBQ5s yGBZKitjHxJc1Hfs6j3Ww15NwDZswRwhmlazaqQiVv43QZnF2R9//2Cp4QLZb2IWatO+ TLZFsyk05elG/wS7IX1tIbnMkM26yw2/w27g57hY9k/yOL2empYumdsTiSAy8WJ8dstk zx4R5STuoGHcUrTT9xiSBt1MpT2g9Htf95ylsgX0BjiFoEvW542T+mXTtIpioRLR1ZD0 x62yMktdFh3IEjJNA120TYVVqM8qysXmA8/z+QrRHf4k+l/ZG6nkbIyEZ874OcL2zOeP s4UQ== X-Received: by 10.180.9.238 with SMTP id d14mr2906929wib.18.1368892514446; Sat, 18 May 2013 08:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id e5sm3485643wiy.5.2013.05.18.08.55.12 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 18 May 2013 08:55:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Question (alsaconf R.I.P.) Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 16:54:38 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.8.13-gentoo; KDE/4.10.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <20130517203003.50c030d0d4a013864a616f54@web.de> <51973E48.5070509@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <51973E48.5070509@gentoo.org> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2008587.SXatSYs8ve"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201305181655.06804.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3c287a9c-b31e-4a79-b1a2-dfc31e70ec19 X-Archives-Hash: 6aee38b43938d8386b8258ab54f09efa --nextPart2008587.SXatSYs8ve Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 18 May 2013 09:39:36 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 17/05/13 21:30, Silvio Siefke wrote: > > (generated by alsaconf) >=20 > Gentoo's alsa-guide.xml is outdated and is incorrectly suggesting the > use of alsaconf >=20 > When in reality alsaconf doesn't work at all with sys-apps/kmod because > it doesn't generate 'modules.pcimap' and 'modules.usbmap' files anymore >=20 > And in version 1.0.27 of alsa-utils in ~arch the command is no longer > being installed >=20 > So whatever you do, forget about `alsaconf` right from the start, since > it's no longer required with modern PCI, USB, ... cards because > sys-fs/udev automatically loads the required drivers > The `alsaconf` command has been useful only for old PCMCIA and ISA cards > for years already >=20 > Instead you don't do anything else than unmute the mixers using > alsamixer, and leave the module loading to udev >=20 > As in, edit/write /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf by hand only if you need to > pass some options to the modules I am still running media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.26-r2 here and a couple of=20 months or so ago I tried rebuilding all sound modules in the kernel, only t= o=20 confirm that some devices were again no longer available. Building them as= =20 modules restored them back as they were. So for my setting at least I have= =20 stayed with sound built separately as modules. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2008587.SXatSYs8ve Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJRl6RaAAoJELAdA+zwE4YeAgQH+gKsJWj20q/nXwL8LnfQJx/T 1nBaFhXKsPmAsJ5oFWg+GzM1c4iNUS5AhEuEtK5lqBBcK/kahFd8pEK1bIt23z30 ChjahLmNdEmTrIoPFnslJWXJ50RVNe5uymgx8iL7FHfwKN2BKPu37nOI/05XdiwS v5VIf6e8oy8qLa9CeIAFDVrJy6wx0M55YIkK3q4iaQPUNlcMAYzHJ6Nra7nSd4M1 8oa78X8LCHNwxnU/9LDCORGCVqUfwMZYfb7DTQyINAWg68CMq5YAz1yDk7NnaX4Z y90JgcCE7xDSrvTLbbqlO8RVRE+PtFxiW+CajYsbcOZ15EZ5t/koIs1mPSck7/w= =Y/ik -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2008587.SXatSYs8ve--