Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:41:16
Message-Id: 1129246542.5722.5.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer by gentuxx
1 On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:25 -0700, gentuxx wrote:
2 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
3 > Hash: SHA1
4 >
5 > Michael Sullivan wrote:
6 >
7 > >I'm trying to set up ALSA on my new computer. I ran lspci to find out
8 > >what sound card I had:
9 > >
10 > >camille ~ # lspci -v | grep -i 'audio'
11 > >0000:00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
12 > >Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
13 > >
14 > >Then I cross-referenced it in the ALSA Matrix. I found (I think) that I
15 > >should be using the intel8x0 driver. The Matrix page said that I should
16 > >modprobe snd-card-intel8x0, but when I do that it comes up missing:
17 > >
18 > >camille ~ # modprobe snd-card-intel8x0
19 > >FATAL: Module snd_card_intel8x0 not found.
20 > >
21 > >I'm pretty sure I have support for the module compiled into the kernel.
22 > >What should I do?
23 > >
24 > Double check the kernel config. Also, when you check the kernel
25 > config, make sure that you have it as a module, instead of being built
26 > into the kernel itself. This card has done some funky stuff for me.
27 > It works, but not the way I would expect it to. The standard test:
28 > "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp" works fine as the normal user, but I
29 > don't get any of the "blips and whirrs" in my normal user account,
30 > that I do with root. Hopefully, YMWV. ;-) I think I also had to
31 > emerge alsa-utils. You may want to check that out.
32 >
33 > - --
34 > gentux
35 > echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'
36 >
37 > gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A
38 > 6996 0993
39 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
40 > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
41 >
42 > iD8DBQFDTu0CLYGSSmmWCZMRAgwVAJ9Ruqa43s1kLWVtgsxU5TGvVN2O/gCeJkNQ
43 > xmDE56rTf3bUGrmORjnhStQ=
44 > =o+r0
45 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
46 >
47
48 I don't even have a /dev/dsp . I'll emerge alsa-utils, but shouldn't I
49 be able to modprobe it without alsa-tools?
50
51 --
52 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list