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Bill Roberts wrote:
| Don't listen to my advice, I have never actually gotten alsa to
| work, but...

It's not that hard, what specific problems did you have?

| In 2.6, there are two ways of setting up ALSA.
| First, compile it in the kernel, in which case you don't need to
| load a module. Second, don't compile it in the kernel but as a
| module (use M instead of *), then load the module.

Alsa is usually way more than one module. This box for example is:

| lsmod|grep snd
snd-pcm-oss            38788   0
snd-mixer-oss          13296   1 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-seq-midi            3744   0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-emu10k1-synth       4700   0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-emux-synth         26972   0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth]
snd-seq-midi-emul       4928   0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
snd-seq-virmidi         3048   0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth]
snd-emu10k1            72468   1 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1-synth]
snd-pcm                59424   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1]
snd-hwdep               4736   0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-util-mem            1296   0 (autoclean) [snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1]
snd-page-alloc          6068   0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi            12992   0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi
snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec         41272   0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-oss            26656   0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event      3328   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq                38864   2 [snd-seq-midi snd-emux-synth
snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-timer              14436   0 [snd-pcm snd-seq]
snd-seq-device          4064   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1-synth
snd-emux-synth snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq]
snd                    32196   0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi
snd-emux-synth snd-seq-virmidi snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-hwdep
snd-util-mem snd-rawmidi snd-ac97-codec snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event
snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device]
soundcore               3940  10 [snd]

| There seems to
| be differing opinions on which method is less likely to fail.

I've never had a real problem with it.  It's especially easy with the
Gentoo docs having spelled out every single command and all:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml#doc_chap5


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