Alsa sound drivers missing on FC2

[Corné Beerse]

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
> 


It's not FC that changed from oss to alsa, its the kernel that moves from oss to 
alsa between 2.4 and 2.6 for its default sound driver. Since fc only follows the 
kernel default, it moves along. (the kernel should have moved to alsa when it 
moved to 2.x but that's my opinion.)


CBee