On 8/22/06, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Strange. Okay, have you queried rpm to see if it's installed? What's >> the output of rpm -qa | grep alsa say? >> >> I don't remember exactly how FC handles it, but is alsa a kernel module >> or built into the kernel on your system? > > # rpm -qa | grep alsa > alsa-utils-1.0.11-4.rc2 > java-1.5.0-sun-alsa-1.5.0.06-1jpp > alsa-lib-1.0.11-4.rc2 > alsa-lib-devel-1.0.11-4.rc2 > # > > Regarding your second question, I do not really know how to answer them. > Run an 'lsmod' and see if alsa is listed (or anything with 'snd' in the used by column). I'm nowhere near an FC5 box with sound, as my laptop is Gentoo and all my FC boxes are servers, so I'm not sure what I should be seeing on that front. I doubt seriously that FC's implementation of also would be THAT different from any other distro.
OK: # /sbin/lsmod | grep snd snd_hda_intel 22613 2 snd_hda_codec 141761 1 snd_hda_intel snd_seq_dummy 8133 0 snd_seq_oss 37185 0 snd_seq_midi_event 11841 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 59441 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 13005 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 43985 1 snd_mixer_oss 21825 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 88005 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 28613 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 59973 9 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 14113 3 snd snd_page_alloc 14665 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm # Paul