FC2 doesn't see my sound card

Jeff Allison jeff.allison at allygray.2y.net
Tue May 25 22:46:20 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 21:59, Brian Kendig wrote:
> Øyvind Stegard wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, think about it: 'lspci' lists stuff connected to the _PCI_ bus, 
> > NOT
> > the ISA bus.
> 
> Exactly.  Which is why I pointed out that 'lspci' doesn't list my 
> soundcard, so nobody would toss me a reply like 'please post the output 
> from lspci'.
> 
> Thanks for the tips; I'll have a look into those, but I have a few more 
> questions first:
> 
> - I don't see any '/etc/init.d/alsa*', or in fact anything in 
> /etc/init.d which mentions sound.  What part of the startup process is 
> supposed to start the sound layer?
> 
> - My modprobe.conf doesn't contain an 'include /etc/modprobe.conf.dist' 
> line; that wasn't put in the file during the OS installation.  Is it 
> supposed to contain this line, does it need it?  And I assume the 
> differentiation between the two files is so I can modify modprobe.conf 
> for my specific settings without having to touch the distribution 
> settings?
> 
> - What happens if I decide to compile ALSA and my soundcard drivers 
> into the kernel, instead of loading them as modules?  How do I specify 
> the options settings (irq, dma, etc.) when it's not a module?

Brian I had this problem with an old sound blaster in FC1 I used the old
sndconfig text based package.
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