I've been doing manual emerge updates (a.k.a not cron) for awhile now
because emerge kept wanting to update alsa-driver to 1.0.8-r1 and the
compile kept failing. This morning I actually looked closely at the
beginning of the emerge of alsa-driver and noticed a message that said
${ALSA_CARD} NOT DEFINED; COMPILING ALL DRIVERS (or something like
that.) I remembered awhile back that someone on this list had a
similiar problem and that someone told them that the driver compile
would fail if the hardware the driver was for did not exist on the
system. I found the Gentoo Alsa Guide online and it said that I should
find out what my soundcard was and cross-reference it with the Alsa
Soundcard Matrix. I did that. I'm not sure I understood the
information the Matrix provided, but this is what I think it means:
baby root # lspci | grep 'audio'
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04)
The Matrix (to the best of my understanding) said that I would use the
es1371 driver for my sound card.
I entered that in /etc/make.conf:
ALSA_CARDS="es1371"
I ran emerge -u alsa-driver. Just before it fails, it says:
checking for which soundcards to compile driver for... configure: error:
Unknown soundcard es1371
Did I give the wrong driver? I think I got it right. Also mentioned in
the Alsa Soundcard Matrix were ens1371 and snd-es1371, but I modprobed
both of those and didn't find them. I successfully modprobed es1371...
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