building kernel for ac97 sound card

[Linux for blind general discussion]

With gentoo, everybody builds a custom kernel; that's a rite of passage.
 I did make clean in /usr/src/linux then ran make menuconfig again and
the only thing I did was to device drivers -> staging drivers -> speakup
console reader -> checked speakup-core has a star as does user speech
driver (speakup-soft) then I exited all the way out and ran all the make
steps again.  I rebooted system after installing grub and have no sound
on sound card in back of machine through traditional speaker jack or usb
so ac97 isn't included in gentoo by default.  My guess is gentoo is like
kali linux in that everything you want you have to explicitly turn on.I
got alsasound and espeak set up by configuration before doing the reboot
too.  I will go back in in chroot and see if I can find an ac97 module
available to install into the kernel to get this talking.  Failing that,
it's time to put a distro on that disk I can get talking.

On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:04:07
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: building kernel for ac97 sound card
>
> Here:
>
> didier[~]$ zgrep -i ac97 /proc/config.gz
> CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m
> CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE=y
> CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=0
> CONFIG_SND_SOC_AC97_BUS=y
> CONFIG_SND_SOC_AC97_CODEC=m
> CONFIG_AC97_BUS=m
>
> Unless you are building a custom kernel I am a bit surprised:
> as far as I know pretty much all distributions ship kernels
> with ac97 provided as modules.
>
> Didier
>
> Le 23/10/2020 ? 17:51, Linux for blind general discussion a ?crit :
> > I think my mistake was having ac97 built into the kernel; could be ac97
> > doesn't like that housing.  I'll try rebuilding that as a module and see
> > if I get further.  The linux kernel configuration is so complex it's not
> > easy to know which things need to be in the kernel as built-ins and
> > which need to be modules.
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:22:10
> >> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> >> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> >> Subject: Re: building kernel for ac97 sound card
> >>
> >> The sound card drivers are modules, so just build the module if need be.
> >> Ac97 sounds pretty standard to me though, so I think it should be part of the
> >> standard setup already.
> >> The pc speaker is something else though.
> >> There is a module called pcspkr which allow the use of that.
> >> All pc's does not have a speaker though.
> >> Maybe I am missing something in your message?
> >> Regards, Willem
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have an ac97 sound card and a c-media usb sound card on a system.  I
> >>> have only had success activating the pcspeaker when building a kernel for
> >>> gentoo.  I have no clue as to what to enable to get this done.  This is
> >>> even after having gone through lspci output and lsmod output with the
> >>> install-minimal dvd running the operating system  The speaker-test utility
> >>> puts out sound in the chroot environment and is silent after first boot
> >>> into the new environment made by the compiled kernel.
> >>>
> >>>
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