I have finally gotten alsa to work for my SoundBlaster PCI 64 (ens1371), but
it's still a bit hokey. I've seen a few reports but no real answers on forum.
Maybe someone knows the answer. Bugzilla is down, so I can't search there at
present.
1. You should be able to compile the 2.6 alsa modules as built in, but this does
not work. The kernel reports that the soundcard is not working.
2. Alsa compiled as modules does work with a little tinkering.
a. If I add alsasound to the boot level scripts as recommended, sound does
not work. Devfsd does not build the /dev/dsp ... entries.
b. If I add alsasound to the default level scripts as recommended, same
results as for a. A few extra dependancy complaints, since alsasound
is design for executing at boot time.
c. After either of these approaches, if I issue /etc/init.d/alsasound stop
and then /etc/init.d/alsasound start, sound works.
So, what I do for now is to add the following to /etc/conf.d/local.start
/etc/init.d/alsasound start
/etc/init.d/alsasound stop
/etc/init.d/alsasound start
Messy (lots of dependancy errors) , but it works.
Does anyone have a clue how to fix this POS?
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