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I've just reinstalled Linux recently, updated to dropline gnome and ran swaret to get everything up to date but ALSA doesn't seem to like me much.
Each time I try to run alsaconf I get :
Code:
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
Then the config loads up and tells me :
Code:
No supported PnP or PCI card found.
Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?
Could anyone help me here?
I have 2 soundcards, a Soundblaster Live 5.1 and a soundblaste Audigy (that I need because I use it's firewire port, but the card it not mine so setting the Live one is the priority).
Just enable sound in the kernel and download the drivers,utilities, and libs from the alsa site. There should be a page on how to setup the live as well
You could upgrade to kernel 2.4.26 (I am assuming your using 2.4.22 since you said it was a stock install) and then reinstall alsa.
MagicMan
edit: You can use swaret to upgrade the kernel if you want (some have good luck doing it this way, others don't). Just edit your swaret.conf and comment out EXCLUDE=kernel then run swaret --upgrade kernel.
Last edited by fcaraballo; 05-09-2004 at 01:09 PM.
it isn't normal, and it isn't bad either, it just means you haven't compiled your alsa driver yet. instructions for doing that are in link i sent, but i'll post them here. this command is done from within the unpacked alsa-driver directory.
if you're using slacwkare 9.1, one thing you could do is go get their .tgz packages for alsa from a slackware-current directory on an ftp site. here is a link to the one i use:
from there, you need alsa-driver, alsa-library, and alsa-oss .tgz packages located in the "l" (lower-case L) directory. you will also need the alsa-utilities .tgz package, which is in the ap directory. after you've got those downloaded to the same directory, cd to wherever you saved them (mine was /home/chris/downloads/alsa) and then:
su
(type root password)
/sbin/pkgtool
then select the option that says "install packages from current directory". once that is done, use alsamixer to change the sound levels, then use alsactl to store the mixer settings, which is done by issuing the command:
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