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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sound driver
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:56:49
Message-Id: loom.20041206T214846-890@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound driver by mchristoph.eckert@t-online.de (Christoph Eckert)
1 > Chack the ALSA project page, perhaps there are some hints.
2
3 Excellent idea! This looks promising, but, I'm a little confused how to proceed:
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5 http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=
6 SiS&card=SiS+735.&chip=SI7012&module=intel8x0
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8 Seems to indicate the driver choice:
9 Device Drivers --->
10 Sound --->
11 <M> Sound card support
12 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture --->
13 PCI devices --->
14 <M> Intel i8x0/MX440, SiS 7012; Ali 5455; NForce Audio; AMD768/8111
15
16 is the chipset and it is supported, as dmesg reveals:
17 #2: SiS SI7012 at 0x1c00, irq 5
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19 The web page also says:
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21 Most modern distros come with soundcore compiled as a module. You can check
22 this in numerous ways. The easiest way is to type.
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24 modinfo soundcore
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26 If this command returns that you have this module, then you don't need to
27 recompile your kernel.
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29 When I run this command 'modinfo soundcore, I get:
30 modinfo soundcore
31 description: Core sound module
32 author: Alan Cox
33 license: GPL
34 alias: char-major-14-*
35 vermagic: 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 SMP preempt PENTIUM4 gcc-3.3
36 depends:
37
38 But how to make it work now?
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41 James
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