Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Creamer <mcreamer@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] no sound
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:25:24
Message-Id: 42E2FBC4.1000806@adelphia.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] no sound by Chris S
1 Chris S wrote:
2
3 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
4 >
5 > :)
6 >
7 > you can enable the driver either under alsa in teh kernel, or by
8 > emerging alsa-driver.
9 >
10 > then you need alsa-utils
11 >
12 > and run alsaconf
13 >
14 > add alsasound to the boot runlevel
15 >
16 > and you should be good to go
17 >
18 > -c
19 >
20 > Mark Creamer wrote:
21 >
22 >> I have one other issue with my newly built system - I don't have
23 >> sound yet. The card is a SB Live EMU10K1. I have it enable in the
24 >> kernel. First I enabled it only in ALSA. Then when that didn't work,
25 >> I also enabled it in OSS. But I don't know what I'm doing there.
26 >> Should I be doing both?
27 >>
28 >> Anyway, from Control Center, when I click on sound & multimedia/sound
29 >> system, I get the message "Unable to start the sound server to
30 >> retrieve possible sound I/O methods."
31 >>
32 >> The sound card is not set to load as module, I have it compiled into
33 >> the kernel.
34 >>
35 >> Thanks!
36 >> Mark
37 >
38 >
39 Man...I really should have seen that. Thanks Chris. I'll dig more first
40 next time!
41
42 What a great list this is..........
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