Holly Bostick wrote: > Jesse Guardiani wrote: >> Jans Han Xie wrote: >> >>>Just guess here: Have you re-emerge the alsa-dirver ebuild every time >>>you re-compile your kernel? >> >> Um, no. It's a 2.6 kernel. Why would I have to do that? It's part of the >> kernel, right? > > Yes, and no. The ALSA drivers are part of the kernel. The alsa-driver > package is another (slightly more recent) set of kernel modules that are > compiled against the kernel, replacing the internal kernel modules. > > So yes, like all kernel module packages (meaning ati-driver, and the > nvidia packages), if you change kernels, you have to recompile the > packgage against the new kernel. > > However, there is in fact (almost) no reason to actually use the > alsa-driver package if you are using a 2.6-series kernel that provides > the ALSA modules, and plenty of reasons to avoid it. > > If you have the package installed because Portage "made you do it" at > some point in the past, check the archives for how to tell Portage that > the kernel itself provides the alsa-driver package, so you can uninstall > it.
No, no package installed. I use the in-kernel version. >>>And pasting the error message when "/etc/init.d/alsasound restart" >>>will be more help :) >> >> There isn't one. It starts all of the modules except my snd-intel8x0 >> module. No error, other than the fact that it isn't doing it's job. >> >> > 1) Try alsaconf. Maybe your card isn't being properly configured (so > alsasound doesn't know to load the module). Been there, done that. No change. Still doesn't load my module. > However, afaik, there is no "better workaround" than putting the module > in /etc/modules.d.autoload/kernel-2.6. After all, that is what that file > is for-- it *is* the "better workaround". My onboard sound chip (a VIA > 8233) also requires semi-automatic loading in order to work properly; it > may have something to do with the fact that it *is* onboard sound, and > thus is related to the loading of other motherboard resources before it > can be detected. Is your intel8x0 also onboard, or is it a separate card? onboard. It's just annoying because if I run `/etc/init.d/alsasound stop` then it unloads my soundcard module, but if I run `/etc/init.d/alsasound start` then it doesn't load it back in. Placing the module in the kernel-2.6 file helps at boot, but it does nothing to help this init.d case. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net -- [email protected] mailing list
