1 Aug
2006
1 Aug
'06
10 a.m.
Mark Knecht wrote:
OK, I'll play along. I'm a new user setting
up a new machine. I
don't know what driver to build. How do I find out without resorting
to joining lists or doing long, boring web searches. I looked at the
alsa-project.org sound card lists didn't show it. It only listed the
intel8x0 driver which was all I built before I started writing emails.
--with-cards=all
That oughta do it. :)
And alsaconf worked just fine, but only once the
driver was built.
My original thought, which seemed innocent enough, was that alsaconf
understood all the PCI IDs and then determined what driver to put in
modprobe.conf from that. Apparently not.
Indeed. I got bit by this one recently. I was surprised when alsaconf
didn't report the existence of my PCI128. lspci could see it, but not
alsaconf, *until* I built and installed the ens1371 driver. So the
--with-cards=all option really is the best way to go for anyone who
doesn't know for sure what hardware is in their system or which driver
they need for the hardware.
Best,
dp