Sound was not working

[rictjo]

Hello

I don't know if this is the right place but to post about it but I found that using a menuconfig kernel config would render my system incapable of any sound playback. I realized that this was due to the fact that the sg support was not turned on in the block layer section of the kernel. I was wondering why this is needed as I thought this was a scsi drive mount/handling prerequisite? Anyhow I didn't have any sound because of it. Now I do tough. Perhaps the pulseaudio wiki needs a notice about it.

Cheers
R
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[ian.au]

Not quite sure I understand that fully, you left out some detail that would be useful, but:

I think you're saying you rebuilt a working kernel via make menuconfig and it wiped out your sound drivers?

That shouldn't happen if you update the kernel correctly.

Check out https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade#make_oldconfig and see if you missed a step.

[rictjo]

So I built my own kernel config and made sure all the kernel options in the pulse audio wiki was set correctly. I removed the scsi drive support and as a result sound stopped working. As I wrote earlier, but yes I did not use the supplied or Gentoo endorsed standard kernels. This is why I posted here in chat and not as an issue. I thought it might be good to know that setting the kernel options as specified in he wiki for having working sound and deactivating a hard disk drive option results in the sound not working...
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[NeddySeagoon]

rictjo,

Removing sg support will remove raw access to your optical drives, so no CDDA support, no DVD playback, no optical disk writing.
There are a few rarer things that us it too.

It has no effect on audio.
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NeddySeagoon

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