ALSA Firmware Tarball

[Net Llama!]

On 09/27/2004 07:20 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:01:15PM -0700, Net Llama! took 22 lines to write:
> 
>>On 09/27/2004 03:45 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
>>
>>>Hello, list,
>>>
>>>If I backfit ALSA to a 2.4.27 kernel, do I need to grab the ALSO
>>>firmware tarball, or is that only used for certain soundards? I have
>>>an ES1371, which is a nice, stupid Ensoniq AudioPCI thing.
>>
>>I never used any firmware tarball back when i was still running 2.6.x 
>>kernels with my es1371.  So unless the firmwall tarball is a new event, 
>>i'd say no.
> 
> 
> I presume you meant 2.4.x. I don't know anything about the firmware

Yea, 2.4.x

> tarball, so I'll just pretend it isn't there and work on getting ALSA
> sound up and running over here.
> 
> It builds okay, and the 'snd' modules loads, but I can't persuade the
> snd-ens1371 module to load. :-(

It won't load?  I never had that problem.  I got everything to load, but 
never got any sound.  If i compiled everything into the kernel, then 
sound worked.  I'm guessing there was some nuance that i was failing to 
grasp, and compiling into the kernel was good enough of a solution for me.

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