1 Aug
2006
1 Aug
'06
1:47 a.m.
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Lee,
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.
Next, what do you mean by 'built and installed the driver'? Since
nothing tells me to use the Intel HDA driver the only way I think this
logic holds up is if I build every single driver offered by the kernel
and hope for the best. I'm sure you're not really suggesting that
path...
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.
You're right, it doesn't help with choosing the driver to compile. I
was just referring to alsaconf which chooses the driver to load. It
assumes that they are all present, as would be the case if a distro
kernel was used.
Lee