On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:20:11PM -0500, Todd Witter wrote:
> What am I doing wrong?
> I have an ESS688 on-board sound card not recognized by the progeny
> installer. Fine, I say. I'll compile the driver as a module in my
> shiny new 2.4.9 kernel, install the latest version of ALSA (which works
> just fine when I've used Libranet) and all will be well. Right?
If you've compiled the kernel module for your sound card, you don't need
ALSA. ALSA is a complete replacement for the kernel sound drivers, not
something that's used alongside them.
> It says it can't find module snd.
snd is the ALSA driver that sits between individual card drivers and the
kernel. You'll only have it if you've compiled the ALSA modules for the
kernel that you have installed. Installing a set of ALSA modules that are
compiled against a different kernel version will not work.
> Again, I have the latest version of ALSA, I compiled the sb sound driver
> as module in my 2.4.9 kernel and this card works with every other distro
> I've installed on my old box.
The easiest way is probably to uninstall alsa and just use the sb module.
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