ALSA installation issues.

[W. Guy Thomas]

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 at 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