alsa-driver masked by: -keyword

crimsonkepi · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

When I try to emerge alsa-driver on a sparc box I receive the message that all possible ebuilds are masked by -keyword. Looking at gentoo-portage.com, I see all alsa-driver ebuilds have -sparc.

How do I emerge alsa on a sparc box?

Shan · Guru Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 558 Location: /dev/null

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~sparc ?
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{ NO -U } { STRIP }
{ TINY }

crimsonkepi · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

I am using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc" in the /etc/make.conf

Take a look at http://www.gentoo-portage.com/browse-program.php?program=2841

I see the tilde in front of ~x86, ~ppc, and so on which makes me believe these may not be stable; however, there is dash infront of -sparc.

I'm tempted to USE="-sparc" emerge alsa-driver but no where in the alsa documentation or the forums do I see where I should have to do this.

crimsonkepi · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

I figured out what the problem is: All of the alsa-driver ebuild files contain KEYWORDs="-sparc"

So, the questions is: What version of alsa-driver works with sparc? In particular 2.4.26-sparc-r1.

Red Sparrow · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:03 am Post subject:

A dash in front of the arch typically means that it will not wark on that architecture period. For instance, the ATI drivers ebuild has "-ppc" because ATI has only provided pre-compiled x86 binaries. I'm not sure what's going on in this case, though.

(- Steve -)

Mark Clegg · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:40 am Post subject:

alsa-driver isn't for sparc. If you're on an Ultra-5/10 you'll have a CS4231 chipset which has sparc specific drivers in the kernel build. You'll also need the audioctl program to unmute/control it.

You can "try" alsa if you want by using the drivers built-in to the 2.6 kernels, but it still seems very iffy.

Do some searching in this forum - there's plenty of discussion about both.