Re: [Alsa-user] intel8x0 driver 0.9.0beta8a with kernel 2.4.14 and DEVFS

[Frans K. <ket...@wa...>]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:35:35 +0200
Asaf Gery <as...@te...> wrote:

> Hi!
> I have RedHat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.14 and devfs. I compiled and installed ALSA 
> driver for Intel i810 on board card. After loading the driver with modprobe 
> devfs does not create an entry in /dev/dsp /dev/sound etc.
> I read the INSTALL document but I find it lacking the details for to run it 
> properly...

Read the part about devfs support ...

> Bellow are the entries for modules.conf:
> 
> alias eth0 e100
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> #alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
> 
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-card-intel8x0
> options snd-card-intel8x0 snd_ac97_clock=47999
> 
> # OSS/Free setup
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> 
> 
> post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 
> 2>&1 || :
> pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 
> 2>&1 || :
> alias usb-controller usb-uhci
> 
> And here is the output of lsmod, which hints that something is wrong...:
> [root@asaf alsa-driver-0.9.0beta8a]# /sbin/lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> snd-card-intel8x0       8016   0  (unused)
> snd-pcm                46144   0  [snd-card-intel8x0]
> snd-timer               9552   0  [snd-pcm]
> snd-ac97-codec         22672   0  [snd-card-intel8x0]
> snd                    24016   0  [snd-card-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer 
> snd-ac97-codec]
> 
> What should I do? I have tried many combinations in modules.conf , none of 
> them worked yet.
> Help....!
> TIA,
> Asaf Gery.

HTH,

    -Frans