From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HM7z9-00005b-UV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:27:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1RJQNF0007770; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:26:23 GMT Received: from aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (aa012msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1RJKGEr031913 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:20:16 GMT Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.105.6) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 45E4021B0007CC15 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:20:16 +0100 Message-ID: <45E495B0.3010307@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:33:52 +0000 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070123) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA_CARDS Variable in-kernel drivers? References: <45E47D8E.5000509@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45E47D8E.5000509@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f15b68a9-d683-4d76-b338-c4fe5f5a56d4 X-Archives-Hash: 41e3d460e847a10c9408c789bb436e56 Jakob Buchgraber ha scritto: > Hi! > > I just read about the required ALSA_CARDS variable when using in-kernel > drivers in the Gentoo Newsletter. Since I am using in-kernel ALSA > drivers I would like to know what changed and why this is required? Is > this explained somewhere? I am using vanilla-sources (not > gentoo-sources). So do I need to set ALSA_CARDS when using > vanilla-sources too? The GWN seems clear: "for users using the in-kernel drivers, they should now properly set that variable" I think that the other alsa packages must be aware of it. Anyway I think setting it shouldn't harm. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list