[gentoo-user] Re: sound driver

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Holly Bostick <motub <at> planet.nl> writes:

> > <snip>
> > * Loading ALSA drivers...                                                
[ ok ]
> >  * Restoring Mixer Levels
> >  * No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card!    
[ ok ]
> > <snip>
> 
> This would be handled by alsaconf, or manually by you in alsamixer, but 
> your card is not found or loaded so naturally alsasound has nothing to 
> work with.
>
agreed! what now?

> Have you modprobed the appropriate modules for your motherboard and/or 
> sound card before attempting to run alsaconf?

Well, bear with me, as we're covering 'new turf', here's what I found:

lspci -v shows:
0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound
Controller (rev a0)
        Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer: Unknown device 0402
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 173, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at 1c00
        I/O ports at 1800 [size=128]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2



lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
<so it's empty>


modprobe -c | grep sis reveals:
alias pci:v00001039d00000180sv*sd*bc*sc*i* sata_sis
alias pci:v00001039d00000181sv*sd*bc*sc*i* sata_sis

modprobe -c | grep snd reveals:
alias char-major-116-* snd
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
options snd cards_limit=1

modprobe -c | grep bt
alias bt-proto-0 l2cap
alias bt-proto-2 sco
alias bt-proto-3 rfcomm
alias bt-proto-4 bnep
alias char-major-81-* bttv


Obviously, I do not really know how to use modprobe, robustly....
so flames are OK....

I could easily have something buggered up in the kernel, or
completely missing too....
James






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