ALSA weirdness with 2.6.0

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Douglas J Hunley wrote:

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>I just compiled 2.6.0 and everything works but sound. I configured the 
>included ALSA to use my SBLive! and when I rebooted, it errored saying 
>'snd-crd-0: no such module' . I thought "no shit, this is a monolithic 
>kernel' . Why is it looking for a module? Why wasn't it built? Why does it 
>work when I build the same kernel but go back to OSS instead of ALSA?
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Don't no about the way 2.6.0 handles it - is it possible to build the 
ALSA drivers into the kernel? Up to 2.4.x, they were of course only 
available as modules, and you had to put lines like
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
into modules.conf to get sblive working.
Klaus