It did. I changed my ALSA_CARD setting from "es1371" to "ens1371" and
alsa-driver successfully installed. Weird.
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 17:12 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > baby src # modprobe snd-ens1371
> > modprobe: Can't locate module snd-ens1371
> > baby src # modprobe ens1371
> > modprobe: Can't locate module ens1371
> > baby src # modprobe es1371
> > baby src #
> >
>
> Yes, I understand that, jut just because the module is called es1371, it
> does not mean that the *card* is also called es1371-- in fact it
> probably is not, given that alsa-driver does not recognize that as a
> valid card, or valid card name, or something, during the compile.
>
> So what I meant is that maybe your ALSA_CARDS setting should be for
> ens1371, which might compile the snd-es1371 driver. It would be odd, but
> it could happen.
>
> Holly
>
> >
> > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 16:56 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> >>Michael Sullivan wrote:
> >>>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...
> >>>
> >>According to make menuconfig, this module is (snd-)ens1371, not es1371.
> >>Typo, thus?
> >>
> >>HTH,
> >>Holly
> >>
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