From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LX0WX-0004DK-QP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:52:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABBD0E03A9; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0152.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A184BE03A9 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (ff-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E8251243FB5 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:52:08 +0000 (UTC) X-SpamScore: 1 X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,9d75a16e49d4196b,22135b8a83251d04,roy@wright.org,gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org,RULES_HIT:355:379:599:601:854:960:973:988:989:1187:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1431:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1540:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1766:1792:2198:2199:2393:2551:2553:2559:2562:2828:3027:3352:3865:3867:3868:3869:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:3876:3877:4043:4384:5007:6114:7652:7903:8501:9036,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:none,DNSBL:none Received: from [192.168.80.20] (Port22.TB3.industryinet.com [66.63.237.22]) (Authenticated sender: roy@wright.org) by omf06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4991F706.5040900@wright.org> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:52:06 -0600 From: Roy Wright User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090126) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA config problem References: <4990A810.7000700@wright.org> <200902100831.35296.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200902100831.35296.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-session-marker: 726F79407772696768742E6F7267 X-Archives-Salt: 199b7f09-a046-4278-a3f2-fe549d19fa13 X-Archives-Hash: 653fe4fcca1f31119203f4035c1c327b Mick wrote: > On Monday 09 February 2009, James wrote: >> Roy Wright wright.org> writes: > >>> On my new install using 2.6.28-gentoo-r1, alsa kernel, sound as modules >>> (recommended), > [snip...] > >>> * enable alsa in the kernel >>> * enable as modules device drivers/sound card support/... > [snip...] > >> I appreciate these steps and refs.... >> >> I'm good for now. > > As was suggested above you may get better luck building the alsa drivers as > modules. Although I had my sound card driver built in the kernel for the > last 2-3 years, I had to revert to building it as a module to get it to work > with kernel 2.6.27-gentoo-r6/8. The main reason for building the sound drivers as modules is so that alsaconf can find and setup your sound card for you.