Linux and sound

kikinovak · Guest

This is definitely a newbie question: do I need alsa to have sound? Right now, I found the right module for my sound card in the kernel menuconfig (es1371) and compiled it alright. My question is: *Should* I have sound now (in theory)? Or is alsa some vital ... er ... thing to have sound?

Thanks,

Niki

biroed · Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 5:56 pm Post subject:

If you have a soundblaster 128pci you should have sound.(if the module is loaded)
remeber to add the user to the audio group

dufnutz · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 209

would it be recommended to use alsa or is using the driver w/o alsa just as good?

Guest · Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 5:32 pm Post subject:

if your new to linux wait on installing and configuring alsa....not because its hard but you'll probably have enough of a learning curve to over come already for now....go to alsa's websit though and look over the supported cards and the features that are possible with the driver for your card...i am running a santa cruz and use the cs46xx driver....i use the cvs version of alsa and by enabling a hack in the makefile can get 4 channel sound and multi channel i/o so that as many as 32 programs can use the card at once...(i havent tried this but i can play q3 and have xmms playing simultanously)

read-up some but for now you'll be fine with the kernel driver for your sound card...i had used that method up untl just a couple of weeks ago.