Alsa sound drivers missing on FC2

[James Wilkinson]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> I just performed a new (clean) install of FC2.  MSI mobo with via 
> chipset and audio on-board.
> 
> From watching this list and reading it appears that FC2 should have 
> installed the alsa sound system by default.  My system did not.
> 
> The listing of my sound modules loaded is below, and in my case it 
> clearly uses the OSS driver and not alsa.  Sound does work, but I have 
> not tested the quality.  
> 
> Did I miss something or did the promised alsa drivers not make it into 
> this release?
> 
> snd_mixer_oss           13824  3 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_via82xx              20644  4
> snd_ac97_codec        54788  1 snd_via82xx
> snd_pcm                   69256  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx
> snd_timer                  17284  1 snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc           8072  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
> gameport                     3328  1 snd_via82xx
> snd_mpu401_uart       4864  1 snd_via82xx
> snd_rawmidi             17444  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device          6152  1 snd_rawmidi
> snd                            39396  13 
> snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore                   6112  3 snd

Unless I'm very much mistaken, those *are* the ALSA drivers. The _OSS
bits refer to the OSS compatibility modules.

Hope this helps,

James.

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