Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

[Michael Sullivan]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:55 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:24 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > > > I got my new computer about a month ago.  It uses the snd-hda-intel ALSA
> > > > driver.
> > >
> > > <SNIP>
> > >
> > > > I remerged alsa-driver.
> > >
> > > Unless your sound card is a special case you should not emerge
> > > alsa-driver. The alsa-driver is included in the kernel.
> > >
> > > Just a thought.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mark
> >
> > When I first got this computer and I couldn't get my sound to work I
> > emailed this list asking for help.  A lot of people on the list told me
> > to use ALSA compiled into my kernel with support for my card, but I
> > could never get it to work.  I finally got it to work by not enabling
> > ALSA in my kernel and emerging alsa-driver.  Now alsa-driver has stopped
> > working.  It seems unlikely that what wouldn't work before (namely
> > compiling ALSA support into my kernel) would work now...
> >
>
> OK, but you are not running the same kernel today that you were
> running a month ago, correct? Are you running the same version of
> alsa-driver, or is it newer? Did you possibly choose testing before
> and grabbed stable this time? (~x86 vs. x86)
>
> I would assume that if you choose exactly the software you used before
> you will get exactly the same results.
>
> - Mark
>

It did.  Until yesterday.  I was playing an MP3 in xmms and the sound
just stopped.  I couldn't get sound out of anything, and when I tried
rebooting (and therefore restarting /etc/init.d/alsasound) it started
giving me those stupid errors...

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