Installing ALSA?

Clete2 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 530

I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card... grep audio /proc/pci reports:

Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 1).

So, without futher to do, here is the problem... I follow the instructions for installing ALSA and I get to emerging it... where it reports that my code for my sound card is non-existant... no matter which code I choose... I cannot ever seem to get it to work... then I just go emerge alsa-driver... no problem... but then after I emerge alsa-driver, I go and find out that /etc/modules.d/alsa is non-existant... and that's as far as I got... help anyone?

Clete2 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 530

bump :-/

water · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 11:19 am Post subject:

Maybe you could descripe your problem in a different (better) way, because i don't understand where it goes wrong. Maybe you could post the errors you get.
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plate · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 1:14 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo.

Clete2 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 530

Ok... I got past the compile part, doing some really stupid small error (stupid me)...

Now comes my problem... I have env ALSA_CARDS... emerge alsa-driver... emerge alsa-oss (I have no idea if I need it, but I emerged it anyways)... the problem is, after emerging, I cannot find the file '/etc/modules.d/alsa'... and it fails to update-modules, if I make the file myself and add the reccomended lines... so just so that it is clear, it is not creating the config file at /etc/modules.d/alsa... I am going to re-do the kernel steps (maybe I screwed up there), but until then, I am not at all sure what to do...

Directions being [url=http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml]here[/url...]

Woody · Guru Joined: 30 Nov 2002 Posts: 592 Location: Milwaukee

did you emerge alsa-lib and alsa-utils?

Clete2 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 530

during emerging alsa-oss, it automatically got alsa-libs... but the config wasn't there, so I didn't try to go on to any other steps (where you emerge utils...)

Right now, I am 'make modules modules_install'ing...

Clete2 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 530

woo thanks

It was the need to emerge alsa-utils...

And crap... following along, I did what it told me to do... update-modules... here is the output:

bash-2.05b# nano -w /etc/modules.d/alsa
bash-2.05b# update-modules
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-gaming-r3/kernel/drivers/net/starfire.o

also, I find that in /usr/src/linux, i have a gaming-r5 folder too if it makes any difference...

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

ok the ebuilds were messed up for me so i went to the asla site and dl the source code for alsa and compiled it for myself so try that and that might be your answer
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Clete2 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 530

Thanks

... seems the boards are faster than me working on the problem as well... I just skipped the update part and added it myself into the file it mentions... and I did aplay $KDEDIR/share/sounds/pop.wav... and it went pop!!! WOOT

Thanks for the help guys, I finally have everything in order on my system

Ahh sweet sweet music

And Gentoo is by far the best distribution if you have the patience to work through it... definately worth it... and I just love portage... much better than ./configure make make install...

Now the only thing I am waiting for is America's Army 1.9

MarioCorleone · Guru Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 336

your definetly right man! i have used slackware, debian, and suse, and by far gentoo is the best by a long shot. i love gentoo!! :lol:

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