On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 11:35, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 26.09.2004 schrieb W. Guy Thomas um 18:04: > > > There are three steps to the ALSA config according to the site: > > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Yamaha&card=&chip=OPL3-SA2&module=opl3sa2 > > > > I was able to complete 1 and 2, compiling the drivers and the libs file. > > But on step 3, compiling the utils section, I am running into problems. > > > > a. The ./configure portion appears to finish nicely, no complaints. > > b. The "make" portion appears to have "nothing to do" as all I get is > > this: > > [ ... ] > > > So of course when I go to the final step, to modprobe the drivers into > > the kernel, there are no files there yet. > > Then you do not have the ALSA kernel modules installed. The alsa utils > are not the kernel modules. Are you sure you did build and install the > ALSA kernel modules for the correct kernel? > > > =Guy > > Alexander According to the site I do not need to do this: There are two ways of getting Linux drivers to work, you can either compile them into the kernel or build them separately as modules. Read the Kernel-HOWTO for details of how to compile a kernel. You must turn on the sound support soundcore module. This is in the kernel. Look in the sound drivers directory and it should be the first option. Most people enable the module setting. That way you can load and unload the module manually if you have multiple soundcards/devices or if you intend to debug or use cutting edge software which may cause your drivers to halt sometimes. Of course it also means you have more control of your system. Most modern distros come with soundcore compiled as a module. You can check this in numerous ways. The easiest way is to type. modinfo soundcore If this command returns that you have this module, then you don't need to recompile your kernel. My modinfo soundcore returns this: [root@Toshi alsa-utils-1.0.6rc1]# /sbin/modinfo soundcore filename: /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o description: "Core sound module" author: "Alan Cox" license: "GPL" Any other ideas? -- =Guy Fedora Core 1, kernel 2.4.22, yarrow
