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From: Joshua Schmidlkofer <joshland@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:13:29
Message-Id: dd0cef60510131805l6b94df0ap3800d88d4cc4a77b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer by Joshua Schmidlkofer
1 more specifically is now an "Intel HD Audio" at the very bottom of the alsa
2 PCI devices list
3
4 thanks,
5 joshua
6
7 On 10/13/05, Joshua Schmidlkofer <joshland@×××××.com> wrote:
8 >
9 > Your using the wrongr driver. There is a kernel 'High def' driver in
10 > 2.6.13
11 >
12 > On 10/13/05, Michael Sullivan < michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
13 > >
14 > > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:25 -0700, gentuxx wrote:
15 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
16 > > > Hash: SHA1
17 > > >
18 > > > Michael Sullivan wrote:
19 > > >
20 > > > >I'm trying to set up ALSA on my new computer. I ran lspci to find out
21 > > > >what sound card I had:
22 > > > >
23 > > > >camille ~ # lspci -v | grep -i 'audio'
24 > > > >0000:00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW
25 > > (ICH6
26 > > > >Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
27 > > > >
28 > > > >Then I cross-referenced it in the ALSA Matrix. I found (I think) that
29 > > I
30 > > > >should be using the intel8x0 driver. The Matrix page said that I
31 > > should
32 > > > >modprobe snd-card-intel8x0, but when I do that it comes up missing:
33 > > > >
34 > > > >camille ~ # modprobe snd-card-intel8x0
35 > > > >FATAL: Module snd_card_intel8x0 not found.
36 > > > >
37 > > > >I'm pretty sure I have support for the module compiled into the
38 > > kernel.
39 > > > >What should I do?
40 > > > >
41 > > > Double check the kernel config. Also, when you check the kernel
42 > > > config, make sure that you have it as a module, instead of being built
43 > > > into the kernel itself. This card has done some funky stuff for me.
44 > > > It works, but not the way I would expect it to. The standard test:
45 > > > "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp" works fine as the normal user, but I
46 > > > don't get any of the "blips and whirrs" in my normal user account,
47 > > > that I do with root. Hopefully, YMWV. ;-) I think I also had to
48 > > > emerge alsa-utils. You may want to check that out.
49 > > >
50 > > > - --
51 > > > gentux
52 > > > echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'
53 > > >
54 > > > gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A
55 > > > 6996 0993
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57 > > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
58 > > >
59 > > > iD8DBQFDTu0CLYGSSmmWCZMRAgwVAJ9Ruqa43s1kLWVtgsxU5TGvVN2O/gCeJkNQ
60 > > > xmDE56rTf3bUGrmORjnhStQ=
61 > > > =o+r0
62 > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
63 > > >
64 > > Can anyone tell me what my card would be listed as in the kernel config
65 > > file? I could grep for that...
66 > >
67 > > --
68 > > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
69 > >
70 > >
71 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>