From alsa-user-owner@alsa.jcu.cz  Fri Jan 29 17:36:46 1999
Received: from omega.uta.edu (gpw0341@omega.uta.edu [129.107.56.23])
	by marvin.jcu.cz (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA13238
	for <alsa-user@alsa.jcu.cz>; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:32:44 +0100
Received: (from gpw0341@localhost)
	by omega.uta.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) id KAA12464
	for alsa-user@alsa.jcu.cz; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:32:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Geoffrey Wossum <gpw0341@omega.uta.edu>
Message-Id: <199901291632.KAA12464@omega.uta.edu>
Subject: Re: ALSA problem with 2.2.0 kernel
To: alsa-user@alsa.jcu.cz
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:32:42 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990128203158.15454B-100000@neuwaldegg.korbei.at> from "Sebastian Harald Otto Felix Korbei" at Jan 28, 99 08:35:18 pm
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Reply-To: alsa-user@alsa.jcu.cz
Sender: alsa-user-owner@alsa.jcu.cz
Precedence: list

> 
> Dear Geoffrey
> 
> Thanks for your help...
> 
> Could you send me a printout of your loaded modules (lsmod) and whether
> you compiled the kernel with kmod on or off (this is this new internal
> "kerneld light"). Also it would be interesting to know whether you are
> running the old kerneld or not. At the moment I cannot even modprobe the
> sound modules in 2.2.0 because of the missing request_module dependancy.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 		Sebastian

I appear to be running ye olde kerneld still, but I did compile the kernel
with kmod on.  If you can't modprobe, you might check that you have the
latest modutils package.  If you went straight from 2.0.x to 2.2.x, you
probably don't.  Grab the latest copy from your favorite kernel.org mirror
at /pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/modutils-2.1.121.tar.gz  (I'd also recommend
getting the latest net-tools package for 2.2.x)

As far as my lsmod listing, I'm not at my Linux box right now, but it's
not interesting anyway.  All I did was copy and paste the
/etc/conf.modules settings from the ALSA README into there, changing the
IRQ and DMA as appropriate.  I then "modprobe snd-interwave" and "modprobe
snd-pcm1-oss" to load the modules.  I've had those two lines all over my
my rc init scripts before I settled on putting them in the sound init
script, so it really doesn't matter where you put it.  Of course, you
should use the snd-* module for you soundcard.

So basically, I'd recommend installing the new modutils pacakge and
recompiling ALSA for the new kernel.  I'm actually running
alsa-driver-0.30-pre2, not the latest alsa-driver-0.30-pre3.  Also, I had
a problem with the ALSA configure script with the 2.2.0 kernel, but it
works fine with the 2.2.1 kernel.  

Hope this helps you out,
Geoffrey Wossum
gpw0341@omega.uta.edu


