On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:25 -0700, gentuxx wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > >I'm trying to set up ALSA on my new computer. I ran lspci to find out > >what sound card I had: > > > >camille ~ # lspci -v | grep -i 'audio' > >0000:00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > >Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) > > > >Then I cross-referenced it in the ALSA Matrix. I found (I think) that I > >should be using the intel8x0 driver. The Matrix page said that I should > >modprobe snd-card-intel8x0, but when I do that it comes up missing: > > > >camille ~ # modprobe snd-card-intel8x0 > >FATAL: Module snd_card_intel8x0 not found. > > > >I'm pretty sure I have support for the module compiled into the kernel. > >What should I do? > > > Double check the kernel config. Also, when you check the kernel > config, make sure that you have it as a module, instead of being built > into the kernel itself. This card has done some funky stuff for me. > It works, but not the way I would expect it to. The standard test: > "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp" works fine as the normal user, but I > don't get any of the "blips and whirrs" in my normal user account, > that I do with root. Hopefully, YMWV. ;-) I think I also had to > emerge alsa-utils. You may want to check that out. > > - -- > gentux > echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' > > gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A > 6996 0993 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDTu0CLYGSSmmWCZMRAgwVAJ9Ruqa43s1kLWVtgsxU5TGvVN2O/gCeJkNQ > xmDE56rTf3bUGrmORjnhStQ= > =o+r0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
I don't even have a /dev/dsp . I'll emerge alsa-utils, but shouldn't I be able to modprobe it without alsa-tools? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
