Problems with ALSA on 2.6 Kernel (Was: Has anyone gotten a 2.6 Kernel to build?)

[John Lannon]

Simon,

How did you get ALSA to run?

When I log in to a 2.6.x system, KDE always generates
a warning about /dev/dsp not existing (it does exist,
not sure if this is a permissions thing or not, I was
logged in as root).  This is true even if ALSA is
complied into the kernel (its a module in 2.6.3-ben2,
but compiled into 2.6.4).  Under 2.6.3-ben2, alsaconf
always errors out, unable to find rcalsasound. 
alsasound is nowhere on the system.  The -lib and
-utils install went flawlessly, I think.  The alsa-lib
and utils were 1.0.3 the alsa kernel install indicated
1.0.2c.

I'm on an eMac with a built-in sound card. 
/proc/asound/devices appears to identify it as a
PMac_Snapper whatever that is.

On the 2.4 kernels which use dmasound_pmac(?), sound
just works. 

Thanks,

John 


--- Simon Slaytor <sslaytor@talk21.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Yes your right mod-init-tools did the trick for me.
> In regard to the
> sound, right from the outset I had problems with the
> DMA driver under
> 2.4, same old story one minute Kudzu is adding it
> then it's taking it
> away and regardless of what I did it simply wouldn't
> work.
> 
> In a fit of madness I installed an old Sound Blaster
> PCI 128 (Ess1373)
> card. Under 2.4 and OSS it worked but obviously
> suffered from
> DMA/Interrupt driven driver problems, static /
> distorted sound etc.
> 
> My main reason for installing 2.6 was to try ALSA
> (Yes I know I could
> have under 2.4 but where's the fun in that) but
> under 2.6 it's fully
> integrated.
> 
> Now under 2.6 using the ALSA driver / sub system for
> the sound card all
> I can say is WOW! perfect sound. I have also enabled
> OSS emulation for
> some of my older programs that don't do ALSA and
> they all work like a
> charm.
> 
> Give it a try you won't be disappointed.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Simon
> 
> P.S. I build the sound module into the Kernel,
> initially because I had
> problems with the old mod tools. But after that
> found that it just seems
> to 'work' better that way. 
> 
> 
> 


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