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majik67

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Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 22

No sound!

I recently compiled my own kernel (Ive done it before), except this time I decided compile my kernel with my soundcard built in, ie no module.
I cannot get my system to use my soundcard even though it is built in, alsaconf wont find my card but I do find it when I look in /proc,

 [julian@home ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards 
 0 [Dummy          ]: Dummy - Dummy
                      Dummy 1
 1 [VirMIDI        ]: VirMIDI - VirMIDI
                      Virtual MIDI Card 1
 2 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xb0000000 irq 18

, what am I missing here!?

Should I just re-compile the kernel and include it as a module?

Any help greatly appreciated!

veek

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Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 167

Re: No sound!

This seems relevant to your situation, it mentions kernel 2.6.5, but I guess it still applies now:

"1) Check that the ALSA drivers are compiled as modules

Make sure you have installed ALSA as modules, and not compiled into the kernel. ALSA fails for all sorts of reasons when compiled into the kernel (this may no longer be true for kernels after v2.6.5). Anything that mentions sound in the kernel config, even if it is not directly to do with ALSA, set its option to M if you can. If you compile you own kernel: when you configure the kernel, make sure you see M (for module) and not * (compiled into the kernel)."

From: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/wiki/ … leShooting

majik67

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Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 22

Re: No sound!

thanks a ton, I will recompile/reconfig the kernel then...