2.5.74 kernel with alsa

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Collins Richey:
> Excuse the crosspost (also gento to gentoo-user), but I'm not having
> much luck.  Alsa seems to be a POS, but that's the wave of the future.
> 
> For non gentooers, modules-update is a script that rebuilds the
> /etc/modules.autoload file used during bootup.
> 
> ---
> Yeah, the old "should be ok."  I have all the necessary modules and
> settings and modules-update, but no joy.
> 
> The OSS driver ens1371 woked just fine on 2.4.x, but the fscking alsa
> won't handle it!  At boot, I get 
> 
> 	Jul  5 07:45:29 richeypc3 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device
> 	0000:00:09.0 
> 	Jul  5 07:45:30 richeypc3 kernel: AC'97 0:0 does not respond - RESET
> 
> If I do modprobe snd-ens1371, all the usual suspects load (see below) ,
> but devfsd will not make any /dev/xxx entries for sound (did kill -HUP
> nnn after the modprobe).

After modprobe snd-ens1371, I think you need to do modprobe snd-pcm-oss

K
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