ALSA Issues - Any help appreciated.

[Slinger]

Hi all - trying to get Alsa going.

Going by the documentation at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

first off- sound card type is as follows:

cat /proc/pci | grep audio

intel corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev5)


I then go to the ALSA Soundcard Matrix at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

I beleive the module i want to use is AD1886 (under Analog Devices) - not sure, if anyone knows for sure, please let me know.

I then go to get the alsa driver:

#env ALSA_CARDS='AD1886' emerge alsa-driver

This errors out and says it cannot find AD1886 - I tried the other intel ones under Analog Devices with the same error.

I then just emerge all alsa-drivers

I then edit the /etc/modules.d/alsa file and add the following:
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1

I tried loading the AD1886 module anyways in this file by:
alias snd-card-0 snd-ad1886

That did not work - said it couldnt find it..so i removed it.

Everything else looks fine, per the documentation - the /etc/devfsd.conf..etc

Alsa will start fine.

I emerge alsa-utils ->ok
then try to run amixer - no go. Though amixer is there in /usr/bin

I try to insmod snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss -> seem to get
"unresolved symbol snd_pcm_hw_param_value_max_Rsmp_94d778ed"
"unresolved symbol snd_oss_info_register_Rsmp_8df3789f"

Because of this, I obviously cannot unmute the master and pcm channels.



**Should I just choose the driver in the kernel - and not set sound support as a module?** Had this, and didnt seem to work, but could of done something wrong.

Please - anything will be great.

Thanks

[jstuart]

Try the AC97 driver. Forget which one it is but try that one. See if that works.
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Jeff Stuart
JAHGU (Just another happy Gentoo User)

[Vancouverite]

I always go with kernel sound if there's a driver available. It's better quality sound than OSS/ALSA, in my experience. Try compiling in sound support and the Intel ICH (i8xx). I generally compile these static but modules work just as good (provided they get loaded into the kernel).

[Slinger]

Thanks for the replies - I ended up going with compiling it in the kernel - works fine.

Thanks