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From: Joshua Schmidlkofer <joshland@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:08:00
Message-Id: dd0cef60510131802t5a003c7byad0abe44f82b5bc7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer by Michael Sullivan
1 Your using the wrongr driver. There is a kernel 'High def' driver in 2.6.13
2
3 On 10/13/05, Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:25 -0700, gentuxx wrote:
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8 > >
9 > > Michael Sullivan wrote:
10 > >
11 > > >I'm trying to set up ALSA on my new computer. I ran lspci to find out
12 > > >what sound card I had:
13 > > >
14 > > >camille ~ # lspci -v | grep -i 'audio'
15 > > >0000:00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
16 > > >Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
17 > > >
18 > > >Then I cross-referenced it in the ALSA Matrix. I found (I think) that I
19 > > >should be using the intel8x0 driver. The Matrix page said that I should
20 > > >modprobe snd-card-intel8x0, but when I do that it comes up missing:
21 > > >
22 > > >camille ~ # modprobe snd-card-intel8x0
23 > > >FATAL: Module snd_card_intel8x0 not found.
24 > > >
25 > > >I'm pretty sure I have support for the module compiled into the kernel.
26 > > >What should I do?
27 > > >
28 > > Double check the kernel config. Also, when you check the kernel
29 > > config, make sure that you have it as a module, instead of being built
30 > > into the kernel itself. This card has done some funky stuff for me.
31 > > It works, but not the way I would expect it to. The standard test:
32 > > "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp" works fine as the normal user, but I
33 > > don't get any of the "blips and whirrs" in my normal user account,
34 > > that I do with root. Hopefully, YMWV. ;-) I think I also had to
35 > > emerge alsa-utils. You may want to check that out.
36 > >
37 > > - --
38 > > gentux
39 > > echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'
40 > >
41 > > gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A
42 > > 6996 0993
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46 > > iD8DBQFDTu0CLYGSSmmWCZMRAgwVAJ9Ruqa43s1kLWVtgsxU5TGvVN2O/gCeJkNQ
47 > > xmDE56rTf3bUGrmORjnhStQ=
48 > > =o+r0
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50 > >
51 > Can anyone tell me what my card would be listed as in the kernel config
52 > file? I could grep for that...
53 >
54 > --
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56 >
57 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer Joshua Schmidlkofer <joshland@×××××.com>