ALSA installation issues.

[Markus Huber]

Am So, den 26.09.2004 schrieb W. Guy Thomas um 23:51:

> If anyone has ALSA experience please let me know. I thought this was
> going to be so simple. It's just sound drivers! LOL.
> 
> =Guy
> Fedora Core 1, kernel 2.4.22.2199, yarrow

Just saw that you are running FC1. Yes, I tried it and I think I did not
continue to use it, because I had to change modules.conf every time a
new kernel was installed.

Anyway: install the what-ever-alsa-rpms you need and change the
modules.conf. I did not have to recompile the kernel, my test was the
xmms-alsa plugin and it worked great.

But the key-issue seems to be changing the modules.conf. Mine looked
that way for a working ALSA sounddriver under FC1:

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alias eth0 8139too
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
# Following line was fitted in to make my USB-Scanner HP 3690 run
options scanner vendor=0x03f0 product=0x1405
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.2 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
post-install snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
#alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
#post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
#pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
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Anytime a new kernel was installed I had to uncomment the last three
lines which were added by the kernel-installation.

Give it a try and enjoy ALSA - works great with esound and aRts.

Regards,
Markus