No sound on Slack 9.0 with 2.6.6 kernel
This is immensely frustrating. I have never encountered so much trouble getting sound to work with a new kernel, but then again, the only kernels I've compiled have all been in the 2.4 series using OSS.
So here we go, I have configured my kernel so that ALSA is compiled into the kernel statically, along with the EMU10K1 driver which is appropriate for my Creative SB Live! PCI card.
I have downloaded and installed the alsa-lib, alsa-utils packages, but alsa-driver didn't get past the ./configure, exiting because the driver is already built into the kernel - no surprise there. When I run the kmix app, I notice there is a dummy driver, which I elected to have when configuring the kernel. Perhaps my programs are accessing this instead of the real driver for my sound card? I've made sure all my sound levels are up; PCM, Volume, CD, etc. I've tested video players, audio players, and games, all of which had sound before, and none of which have it now.
I am not using any modules for sound, but all the instructions I've encountered keep talking about snd-emu10k1, snd-pcm-oss, snd-mixer-oss, and snd-seq-oss. These modules were mentioned on the alsa-project.org website about how to get everything working with my particular card. WHY is there all this OSS stuff when I'm trying to use ALSA???
I specifically left out all the OSS stuff when I compiled my kernel because it said it was deprecated. Every post I find around the net about this type of problem seems to be unrelated to what I am doing. Can anyone who knows what's up on this help me out???
Thanks in advance for any help you can afford.
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