[nflug] gentoo/alsa/kernel question

[vlok stone]

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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