[gentoo-user] quick question on ALSA_CARDS

[gentoo-user] quick question on ALSA_CARDS

[Doug Hunley]

My SB Live! 5.1 sang its last note finally, so I'm reverting to the
onboard Intel chip. I got my kernel configured already, but when I
went to edit make.conf, I became confused on which of the following is
correct:
ALSA_CARDS="snd-hda-intel"
or
ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"

I googled it and, of course, found examples for both :-/

I then used 'eix/' to check the alsa packages and didn't see either form.

Which is correct?

On a side note, is it even needed since I run a monolithic kernel?
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[gentoo-user] Re: quick question on ALSA_CARDS

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/05/12 23:10, Doug Hunley wrote:
> My SB Live! 5.1 sang its last note finally, so I'm reverting to the
> onboard Intel chip. I got my kernel configured already, but when I
> went to edit make.conf, I became confused on which of the following is
> correct:
> ALSA_CARDS="snd-hda-intel"
> or
> ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
>
> I googled it and, of course, found examples for both :-/
>
> I then used 'eix/' to check the alsa packages and didn't see either form.
>
> Which is correct?
>
> On a side note, is it even needed since I run a monolithic kernel?

It's not needed.  It's also not needed when building sound drivers as 
modules.  AFAIK, ALSA_CARDS serves no purpose anymore, since it was used 
to control the drivers that were built by the alsa-driver ebuild.  The 
alsa-driver package has been removed from portage.

You can simply delete ALSA_CARDS from make.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: quick question on ALSA_CARDS

[Doug Hunley]

now that's excellent news. thanks!

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can simply delete ALSA_CARDS from make.conf.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: quick question on ALSA_CARDS

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:46:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote

> You can simply delete ALSA_CARDS from make.conf.

  What about ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS ?

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

[gentoo-user] Re: quick question on ALSA_CARDS

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 11/05/12 02:01, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:46:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote
>
>> You can simply delete ALSA_CARDS from make.conf.
>
>    What about ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS ?

This is for embedded systems that need to strip parts of alsa-lib.  It 
controls USE flags for media-libs/alsa-lib.

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2006/12/minimising-alsa-lib