nVidia, AC97 sound, and UDEV.

[Hervé Fache]

You might want to load the oss compatibility modules if you need
/dev/dsp. But why do you need it? Most things use ALSA through the
alsa library these days.

For the rest, Daniel's e-mail is complete and correct AFAIK.

Hervé.

On 12/11/06, Daniel T. Chen <crimsun at fungus.sh.nu> wrote:
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> David A. Cobb wrote:
> > "sound/pci/ac97"  OK, I figure I'm real smart so I do a "# modprobe
> > ac97" which appears to work.  Also, recalling what nVidia used to
>
> Barking up the wrong tree here.
>
> > SO, am I using the right driver, or do I need to compile in the "intel8x0".
>
> We already compile and provide snd-intel8x0.ko and snd-ac97-codec.ko
> (among a host of prerequisite ALSA kernel modules) in the various
> linux-image-2.6.foo packages.
>
> > And, while we're at it, if someone can advise what udev configuration
> > statements I need to assign the /dev/dsp* names to the appropriate node
> > numbers, that would be nice too.
>
> You wouldn't touch udev, actually.
>
> Essentially, if snd_intel8x0 is loaded, is selected as the default sound
> driver, and is detected and shown properly with ``asoundconf list'',
> then the real issue is a mixer level [elements] one, i.e., "your volumes
> are not set properly."
>
> Look at the output from ``amixer''.
>
> Thanks,
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> Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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