Alsa sound drivers missing on FC2

[Chadley Wilson]

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 14:31, James Wilkinson wrote:
> 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.

Quite right. :->
> 
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