[linux-audio-user] missing snd-usb-audio module in Gentoo

[nigel henry]

Hi Lee. Thanks for the reply. I was sort of half expecting someone to say 
recompile the kernel, when I saw that commented out snd-usb-audio module in 
the kernel config file. The only kernel compile I've attempted is to get 
Gentoo off the ground, which failed. Gentoo with system emerged stayed on the 
drive to sweat it out (minus kernel) for 5 weeks. Got myself psyched up the 
other day to have another go, and went for Genkernel. At least the system is 
now up and running, but 30hrs of DL and compile to get KDE installed. I'll 
get some info on compiling amother kernel, it's not so bad now I've got 
Gentoo up and running. If it don't work I can revert to the original without 
losing access to the system.

On the side. Did you ever get a sound recording for the Amtrak Acela (Email of 
April 05). I've since been looking for a soundtrack I made while shooting 
16mm footage of an A4 (Sir Nigel Gresley) steam loco. Going up a slight 
gradiant, but really nice sounds. If you have got the sounds, I'd be 
gratefull for them, and soon as I find the cassette, I'll send you mine. 
Thanks again. Nigel.





On Tuesday 09 Aug 2005 5:27 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:14 +0000, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > Hi. Amazingly after emerging alsa-lib, alsa-utils, and alsa-oss, running
> > alsaconf, and pushing up the master volume in alsamixer, the sounds
> > worked OOTB. I had to add snd-seq-midi to /etc/modules.autoload.d, as it
> > hadn't autoloaded at bootup. The problem is that even though the midi
> > keyboard shows up in /proc/bus/usb/devices, it does not show up in
> > Qjackctl's midi connect bay. Tried modprobe snd-usb-audio, but it
> > complains that there is no such module.
> >
> > # CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO is not set
>
> Because there's really no such module.  Your kernel was compiled without
> USB audio support.
>
> > Thats all folks. Any suggestions apart from "Reinstall the OS" welcome.
>
> Recompile the kernel with USB audio support.
>
> If you don't know how to do that, ask on a Gentoo forum.
>
> Lee