alsa from 2.4 to 2.6: a couple of questions

alsa from 2.4 to 2.6: a couple of questions

[Cheryl Homiak]

Ok, first I got alsa to work in kernel 2.4.25. I figured by doing that I
eliminated trying to figure out extra problems that might have to do with
the 2.6 kernel before I had alsa at least established as working on my
system.
But now i'm not sure what to do with 2.6. I am doing alsa as modules,
though I have sound enabled in the kernel, not as a module. I recompiled
the driver for 2.6; didn't know if i also had to redo the libs and/or
utils. I can now load the modules manually and alsa works fine in 2.6.5,
but i can't figure out how to get it into modprobe.conf. Using
update-modules doesn't apparently add in the modutils/alsa file as in 2.4.
I do have a /etc/modprobe.conf, which primarily has a line to include
/lib/modules/modprobe.conf. Can somebody clarify these two issues for me:
getting it to come up at boot in 2.6.5 (debian unstable) and whether or
not I have to recompile and install the utils and libs--though everything
seems to e working once I load manually.
Thanks.


-- 
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Re: alsa from 2.4 to 2.6: a couple of questions

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Cheryl:

The best I can do for you is to share my /etc/modprobe.conf. This will, I think, be somewhat different on different distros, but the basic ideas will be the same. So, here's one of my modprobe files:


include /etc/modprobe.conf.dist
alias scsi_hostadapter sym53c8xx
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 3c59x
#sound configurations ALSA
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 index=0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 

Cheryl Homiak writes:
> Ok, first I got alsa to work in kernel 2.4.25. I figured by doing that I
> eliminated trying to figure out extra problems that might have to do with
> the 2.6 kernel before I had alsa at least established as working on my
> system.
> But now i'm not sure what to do with 2.6. I am doing alsa as modules,
> though I have sound enabled in the kernel, not as a module. I recompiled
> the driver for 2.6; didn't know if i also had to redo the libs and/or
> utils. I can now load the modules manually and alsa works fine in 2.6.5,
> but i can't figure out how to get it into modprobe.conf. Using
> update-modules doesn't apparently add in the modutils/alsa file as in 2.4.
> I do have a /etc/modprobe.conf, which primarily has a line to include
> /lib/modules/modprobe.conf. Can somebody clarify these two issues for me:
> getting it to come up at boot in 2.6.5 (debian unstable) and whether or
> not I have to recompile and install the utils and libs--though everything
> seems to e working once I load manually.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
> 
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Re: alsa from 2.4 to 2.6: a couple of questions

[Cheryl Homiak]

Thanks Janina.
But in debian traditionally one isn't supposed to edit the modprobe.conf
or, as it was in 2.4, the modules.conf. You put an alsa file in
/etc/modutils and when you did update-modules, that was then added to your
modules-conf. I'll have to try to research how it's supposed to work now.



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Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Re: alsa from 2.4 to 2.6: a couple of questions

[Luke Davis]

Right.  And you don't pull those "remove on penalty of death" tags from
matrices either, do you.  Just because they say not to, doesn't mean you
can't, or shouldn't, if it needs to be done.


On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Thanks Janina.
> But in debian traditionally one isn't supposed to edit the modprobe.conf
> or, as it was in 2.4, the modules.conf. You put an alsa file in
> /etc/modutils and when you did update-modules, that was then added to your
> modules-conf. I'll have to try to research how it's supposed to work now.
>
>
>
>

Re: alsa from 2.4 to 2.6: a couple of questions

[Cheryl Homiak]

Oh no, I don't feel that way; I've done it and can do it.
I'd just like to know how it's officially supposed to work now.



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Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Re: alsa from 2.4 to 2.6: a couple of questions

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  On my Debian unstable box the actual file for the alsa modules is
in /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0

/etc/modutils/1.0 is a sym link to it.  This assumes you are using
Debian unstable and the Debian alsa packages.  Here is the output of ls
-l on /etc/modutils/alsa to hopefully make things less confusing.

blackbox 11:33:40$ll /etc/modutils/alsa
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           22 2004-03-07 07:36
/etc/modutils/alsa -> /etc/alsa/modutils/1.0
blackbox 11:33:54$

Hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 04:13:34PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Thanks Janina.
> But in debian traditionally one isn't supposed to edit the modprobe.conf
> or, as it was in 2.4, the modules.conf. You put an alsa file in
> /etc/modutils and when you did update-modules, that was then added to your
> modules-conf. I'll have to try to research how it's supposed to work now.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
> 
> 
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Re: alsa from 2.4 to 2.6: a couple of questions

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi Kenny.
No, I didn't use the debian packages; I used the 1.0.4 tarballs. But it
would seem that whether /etc/modutils/alsa is a symlink or the real thing,
it still should get the modules loaded.
Thanks for the info.



-- 
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."