Idiot newb needs hand-holding with ALC650 sound...

[cynik]

I am fairly new to Gentoo (and Linux in general), so your assistance and patience is most appreciated.

I am having a bear of a time configuring my AT7’s Realtek ALC650 on-board sound. I have attempted to follow the instructions in the previous threads regarding this same subject to no avail. Here’s what I have fumbled through thusfar:

I recompiled the kernel (2.4.19) to include only “Sound Card Support”, which I assume is what everyone is referring to when they mention “soundcore support”, and OSS support (with no soundcards selected). Both are statically compiled, not modules.

/devfs is enabled and compiled to mount on boot.

I attempted to follow the Desktop Configuration Guide instructions verbatim:

Emerge media-sound/alsa-driver

Nano –w /etc/modules.d/alsa à added “alias snd-card-0 (through snd-card-7) snd-ac97_codec” under the ## ALSA portion

Nano –w /etc/devfsd.conf (my setting look identical to the Desktop Guides configuration, so I left it alone)

Rc-update add alsasound boot

Reboot à boot log returns errors such as “It is generally a bad idea to allow more than one service to start for the same module” “modprobe for snd-ac97_codec failed… no such device”

When KDE initializes, I receive the following error: “Dev/dsp cound not start. The sound server will continue using /dev/null”

Emerge media-sound/alsa-utils

When I attempt to run “amixer”, of course it fails.

So… am I missing a step somewhere. Something perhaps not explicitly covered in the Desktop Configuration Guide. Being such a newb, it appears that these sort of thing need to be spelled-out for me in detail.

I f one of you Guru’s would be so kind as to explicitly lay out the steps required to get this configuration working… I would be more that greatly appreciative.

Thanks in advance.

[klieber]

Locking thread in favor of this one

--kurt
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