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I can't get my audio to work in Gentoo. When I type alsamixer it says I am using a dummy card. The card that I have is built into my motherboard. lspci picks it up as Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER AC'97 Audio Controller. I thought that I put support in when I compiled my kernel...any suggestions?
I had a similar problem, but with a different card. I could not get the kernel ALSA support to work, so I went the module route and that worked for me.
See the gentoo ALSA guide here on how to get the ALSA driver module working:
Ok I tried both methods and neither appear to work when I cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp....
When I restart alsasound by using /etc/init.d/alsasound restart it says:
Well I rebooted and it gives me a few hundred alsa errors on boot haha. When I do an lsmod it only gives me one module running and it isn't the alsa one, so its an error even starting it...alsa still says its a dummy. I'm gonna go take a screenshot and put it up....
Here is a screenshot of my desktop with alsamixer and lsmod:
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