[linux-audio-user] no sound card

[michel levy]

Christoph Eckert wrote:
> Hmmm, ISA. I know that alsaconf can handle some ISA cards, but 
> maybe yours needs manual adjusting.

You have indicated the good solution, but unfortunately alsaconf was not 
in the package alsa-utils (contrary to the documentation).

In order to have alsaconf, I have received an excellent suggestion of 
Nicolas Kowalski (VERIMAG Grenoble) :
- download the source of the package alsa-utils-1.0.6
- rpm -i alss-utils-1.0.6.src.rpm which put alsa-util.spec in the 
directory /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
- comment the line of alsa-util.spec containing rm alsaconf (and the 
following line after \)
- rebuild the package : rpmbuild -bb alsa-util.spec
the package can be found in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 (for my machine)
- install it with the options -i --force

With alsaconf, it's easy to find the good card (sb8) : all was nearly 
automatically done. I had only to select this choice of driver between 
the drivers for sound chips on an ISA bus.
After that, it was necessary to reboot to obtain the detection of the 
soundcard.


CONCLUSION : most of my difficulties have happened from the removal of 
alsaconf of the package alsa-utils, I don't understand why someone has 
decided to do this removal.



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