* Norbert Kamenicky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > cothrige wrote: > > I just finished running 'emerge -uD world' and everything seemed to go > > okay. At least in the end it seemed to. I did have some troubles > > with spamassassin and a couple of other strange dependencies which > > were not dealt with automatically, but google and archives of such > > lists as this helped in those areas. But, now I am having all sorts > > of strange trouble with alsa. > -snip- > > I would say u forgot to inform us, that u also rebuilt kernel ... > didn't u ?
No, actually, I didn't. I was very happy with the kernel I compiled with the installation and had no reason to change that. But, at least I may have thought of that as a problem if I had since that never failed to kill alsaconf when I used Slackware. As a matter of fact alsa never really worked right for me then, but didn't work at all after a kernel compile. And only about half the time could I ever correct the problem. In any case, I think I have just solved the alsa problem, though I wonder if I really know what I did wrong. It would seem that my ignorance and newbieness in matters Gentoo is to blame (Duh!). In order to slow down the alsaconf messages I had to compile a program and then run it during that process. In this way I was able to see that alsasound had no start function. I looked at /etc/init.d/alsasound and saw that it was virtually blank. It had one line of some kind but I don't recall what it was. It would seem that knowing that my files would be saved to the archive folder I had gotten a little bold when running dispatch-conf. But, I copied the old file back from the archive and ran alsaconf again. This time it seemed to work, though things still look funny. In alsamixer there is no way to choose a record source. It used to have red dashes over those items which could be captured, and when selected they told you, but now there is nothing of that sort, and no capture control either, which it used to have. Audacity does act like it can record though as it gives me no errors and the record source does offer the typical choices my card offers. Maybe there is just something odd in the alsamixer screen now? Strange anyway. I do wonder if it will work on reboot, and I don't know if I should run rc-update on alsasound again. Would that have actually have corrected the problem in the first place? I fear that I really hate alsa which never seems to work right for me ever, no matter which distro I use or how I compile my kernels, and now with Gentoo things to consider I am somewhat lost. Patrick -- [email protected] mailing list
