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 Gentoo's alsa-guide.xml is outdated and is incorrectly suggesting the |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