Re: [Sheflug] Alsa Setup

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 00:02 +0000, Wonkey Donkey wrote:
> Ive been trying to setup alsa through the kernel, on my laptop, but it wont 
> play (No pun intended!).
> 
> Im using Gentoo, and a 2.6.10 kernel, with the necessary alsa options 
> selected.
> 
> I then added the alias to etc/modules.d/alsa like so:
> 
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> 
> And then ran modules-update.
> 
> I then added alsasound to the default runlevel and rebooted, but no luck at 
> all.
> 
> If i disable it in the kernel and use the alsa-driver, it works fine.
> 
> The only other thing i thought about was adding snd_intel8x0 to the 
> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

No, you definitely don't need to do this.

Did you make sure to open an alsamixer and unmute the master channel?

I can't see anything wrong with what you've described.

Here's my /etc/modules.d/alsa file for comparison (for two sound cards,
rather than one):

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore

##  ALSA portion
alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
#  OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
##

# OSS/Free portion - card #1
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
##  OSS/Free portion - card #2
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

# Set this to the correct number of cards.
options snd cards_limit=2

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