Alsa sound drivers missing on FC2

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Jun 18 12:58:44 UTC 2004



James Wilkinson wrote:

>Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>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
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>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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I expected to see something that *said* alsa, not oss.
If those are the alsa modules then it is working as expected.
Thanks for the feedback.

Jeff

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