installing alsa sound drivers
 

i got the drivers, libs, and utils installed, but when i try to modprobe the different modules it says the modules weren't found... a friend told me i needed to recompile my kernel (he's an idiot though), and the INSTALL told me i needed to edit my rc.modules... I can open it up, but i have no idea what to add... i have the src in /usr/src/linux, the packages seemed to install, but, again, while i try to modprobe, i get they can't be found. I'm not really sure what i'm supposed to get, but i'm assuming that isn't it...

hmmm, i was reading some previous posts on here, and tehy said i should have done ./configure --with-kernel=/usr...
when i posted on the newbie forum they told me i needed to download the kernel source because i didn't have it, but i'm thinking maybe i did have it, it was just in a different place... so should i start over? how do i undo the damage i've already done?

Tried make uninstall?

now i just feel stupid...

tar xvfj alsa-driver
./configure --with-cards=chip of your board
make
make install
./sndevices
cd utils
./alsaconf
cp alsasound /usr/local/bib
alsasound start


tar xvfk alsa-lib
./configure
make
make install

tar xvfj alsa-utils
./configure
make
make install

alsamixer

remember when you installed alsa the sound alwas if off

You do need to install the kernel source if you have not specifically done so already. It is not included on the Slackware 9 install CD because of space considerations. You can download it from any Slackware mirror under the slackware-9.0/slackware/k directory. The name of the package that you need to install is kernel-source-2.4.20-noarch-5.tgz. You do not need to recompile your kernel, however. It will work fine with the bare.i kernel that Slackware 9 defaults to. If you have the kernel source installed from the Slackware package that I pointed to above, you also do not need to tell alsa's ./configure where to find the kernel source because it will be where the script expects to find it.

Follow this SlackFAQ.

Note: You can substitute the references to "amixer" with the Slack default rexima by adding:

# rexima vol 90
# rexima pcm 90

Just read the FAQ straight through to the very end. You'll get the idea.