[nflug] gentoo/alsa/kernel question

[Dave Andruczyk]

I actually do it a different way (in linux there's ALWAYS a different way).  I
ONLY enable (as a module) Soundcore support in the kernel config but I leave
ALSA and OSS DISABLED  IN THE KERNEL configuration.  Then I can just run
"emerge alsa-driver" and get a more current version of alsa that what's in the
kernel sources...  (hence I get the latest alsa without having to run the
latest kernel)



--- vlok stone <vlokstone at yahoo.com> wrote:

> All 2.6.x kernels have alsa built in. But you may want
> the alsa-utils. 
> 
> --- Stephen Burke <qfwfq at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > After shuffling some hard drives around here, any
> > drive that has M$ on
> > it (2 of 6 at the moment) is at least dual-booted
> > against in inevitable
> > (sooner or later) complete M$MalFunction. So that's
> > nice, comforting
> > anyway.
> > 
> > My most recent effort is this gentoo/2k dualboot
> > (only my second
> > successful gentoo (with working X, etc) after more
> > attempts than I care
> > to remember), where my old mozilla mailbox has
> > migrated after making the
> > tour here and failing to work effectively on various
> > machines.
> > 
> > Everything seems to work beautifully at the moment,
> > so I am hoping to
> > get some advice before I screw things up completely
> > and have to start
> > the gentoo installation all over again.
> > 
> > I would like to have alsa on this machine, and have
> > used genkernel in
> > the install which apparently has all sorts of alsa
> > stuff in it, but
> > needs to be recompiled to turn it all on. I did
> > that, and everything
> > appears to have gone well, except for some cryptic
> > comments tacked on
> > here and there that I can't quite figure out.
> > 
> > At the end of # genkernel --menuconfig all, I get
> > this:
> > 
> > * Kernel compiled successfully!
> > *
> > * Required Kernel Parameters:
> > *     real_root=/dev/$ROOT
> > *
> > *     Where $ROOT is the device node for your root
> > partition as the
> > *     one specified in /etc/fstab
> > *
> > * If you require Genkernel's hardware detection
> > features; you MUST
> > * tell your bootloader to use the provided INITRAMFS
> > file. Otherwise;
> > * substitute the root argument for the real_root
> > argument if you are
> > * not planning to use the initrd...
> > 
> > Then, the gentoo alsa documentation says this:
> > 
> > Now that your options are set, you can (re)compile
> > the kernel and ALSA
> > support for your card should be functional once you
> > reboot into the new
> > kernel. Don't forget to update your GRUB
> > configuration to use the newly
> > built kernel. You can now proceed to ALSA Utilities
> > and see if
> > everything is working as it should.
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me what grub.conf should look like
> > to use the new
> > kernel, initramfs, etc?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > btw, grub.conf looks like this at the moment:
> > 
> > default 0
> > 
> > timeout 30
> > 
> > splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > 
> > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-r2
> > root (hd0,1)
> > kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2
> > initd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2
> > 
> > title=win2k
> > root (hd0,0)
> > makeactive
> > chainloader +1
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > S.
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> 
> 
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Dave J. Andruczyk


	
		
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