Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa Question (alsaconf R.I.P.)

Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 18 May 2013 09:39:36 Samuli Suominen wrote:
> > On 17/05/13 21:30, Silvio Siefke wrote:
> > > <alsa.conf> (generated by alsaconf)
> >
> > Gentoo's alsa-guide.xml is outdated and is incorrectly suggesting the
> > use of alsaconf
> >
> > When in reality alsaconf doesn't work at all with sys-apps/kmod because
> > it doesn't generate 'modules.pcimap' and 'modules.usbmap' files anymore
> >
> > And in version 1.0.27 of alsa-utils in ~arch the command is no longer
> > being installed
> >
> > So whatever you do, forget about `alsaconf` right from the start, since
> > it's no longer required with modern PCI, USB, ... cards because
> > sys-fs/udev automatically loads the required drivers
> > The `alsaconf` command has been useful only for old PCMCIA and ISA cards
> > for years already
> >
> > Instead you don't do anything else than unmute the mixers using
> > alsamixer, and leave the module loading to udev
> >
> > As in, edit/write /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf by hand only if you need to
> > pass some options to the modules
>
> I am still running media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.26-r2 here and a couple of
> months or so ago I tried rebuilding all sound modules in the kernel, only to
> confirm that some devices were again no longer available.  Building them as
> modules restored them back as they were.  So for my setting at least I have
> stayed with sound built separately as modules.

Also, I had to use the install feature of modprobe to get the modules to
load correctly as udev did not load all the required modules.  Before it
was done by an init script.

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