Malcolm said:
Built-in alsa is more speedy ^_^ and I'm not having any of the previous sound issues I had with previous 2.6-beta or 2.4-version kernels
did you compile alsa modules, or compile it right into the kernel. i compiled alsa as modules. if you did, how did you go about creating modules.d/alsa (or whatever the alsa config file is, not to sure right now). did youe merge alsa-utils? did you just make the config file yourself? once kde is done compiling i gotta do that. i assume its not gonna be a problem.
*edit* ok malcom, or anyone else, i have a question. i have sound working via alsa. I have compiled everything as modules in my kernel, including the module for my specifici sound card. i then emerged alsa-lib and alsa-utils. i then edited my /etc/modules.d/alsa config file. it looks like:
Code:
Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.con$
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
##
## ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
## OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
#
# OSS/Free portion - card #1
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
## OSS/Free portion - card #2
## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
# Set this to the correct number of cards.
options snd cards_limit=1
take notice of the lines
Code:
## ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
## OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
i added in the proper module for my soundcard, and uncommented the line under OSS/Free portion. However, when i load gentoo and alsa is loading, i get the following:
Code:
*Loading snd_via82xx
FATAL: Module snd_via82xx already in kernel
*Loading snd-seq-oss
Fatal: Module snd-seq-oss already in kernel
do i get these errors because i uncommented the line in /etc/modules.d/alsa. if i re-comment them i just get different errors. however, with the lines uncommented like i have shown, i still get perfectly fine sound support. i just wish to fix my system so it doesnt try to load those modules and that so everything works fine. thanks.