2.5.74 kernel with alsa

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 11:58:13 -0400
Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

True enough, and also several other snd-xxxxx-oss modules, but whatever
the combination devfsd will not build the /dev/dspn entries, so loading
is not highly useful!

I imagine I'll just stick with 2.4.x kernels for quite a while.  I've
seen a few other postings compaining about the AC'97 codec error
(via google) but no answers.

Thanks for trying.
-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.