On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 16:08, James Wilkinson wrote: > Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > 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? > > W. Guy Thomas replied: > > 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. > > It sounds like you're getting confused by terminology. The Linux kernel > as supplied by Fedora (and practically every other distribution) comes > as one big "monolithic" kernel image, together with various kernel > modules that are linked into (= loaded into) the kernel. Once they're > loaded, they effectively are part of the kernel. > No, I understand this. > Those parts of the kernel code that are compiled as modules could > instead have been compiled into the main kernel image: this has various > advantages and disadvantages. To get the ALSA drivers there, you would > have to recompile the whole kernel. > Yes, I know. > You have chosen to use separate kernel modules. You still need to > compile, install, and load those modules. > > You will *also* need to compile the user-mode utilities, which do not > run in kernel mode. > I know I need to compile and install and load. That is what I'm attempting to do. But according to the ALSA site, I have three modules: drivers, lib and utils. Apparently there is something else I am missing. The drivers compile as do the libs, but the utils do not. I have been looking for rpm's and source on many sites to see if perhapes there is a lower level alsa kernel module that I am missing. If anyone has ALSA experience please let me know. I thought this was going to be so simple. It's just sound drivers! LOL. =G > Hope this helps, > > James. > > -- > E-mail address: james | "I loved doing 'Midsomer Murders', but it got to the > @westexe.demon.co.uk | point last year when there was no one left in > | Midsomer to murder, so I had to put an end to it." > | -- Writer Anthony Horowitz -- =Guy Fedora Core 1, kernel 2.4.22.2199, yarrow
