[SOLVED] correct driver for my soundcard

Despot Despondency · Apprentice Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 176

I'm just configuring ALSA on my system and I'm trying to find out which driver I need to load in the kernel for my soundcard.

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:53 pm Post subject:

Does the Intel HDA (High-Def Audio) driver work?

Azalia tends to be a flavor of Intel HDA.
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Despot Despondency · Apprentice Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 176

I don't know, I'll give it a try. Something funky just happen to my computer so I going to have to sort that out first.

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

... also you can paste the output of lspci -n in here. Look at the result for the Audio Controller.

Despot Despondency · Apprentice Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 176

I managed to configure the soundcard and install alsa-utils. I tested it on an online radio after and it seemed to work fine. However there appears to be a problem. When I reboot the computer I get the following errors

eccerr0r · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 7:38 pm Post subject:

You may have mixed modules from the in-kernel ALSA modules and the external alsa-drivers package? Which are you ultimately using?

I'm using solely in-kernel pretty much for drivers...
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Telemin · l33t Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 753 Location: Glasgow, UK

Well did you install the alsa-drivers package?

If you did then you have two clashing sets of modules and you need to emerge -C alsa-drivers.

If you can't remember then running

Despot Despondency · Apprentice Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 176

I didn't install alsa-drivers. I double checked and it's not installed.

I had a problem with a system date in the future https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-810978-highlight-.html. Could it be related to that?

Telemin · l33t Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 753 Location: Glasgow, UK

That "Invalid Argument" error could very well be something wrong in your /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf. Can you post it up for us please? As the alsa guide says, one problem may be a device_mode line which didn't ought to be there.

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Despot Despondency · Apprentice Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 176

Here is the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf

Telemin · l33t Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 753 Location: Glasgow, UK

Okay, so I personally never faff about with modules when things can be built straight into the kernel. So you may wish to try:

1. Clean out the various modules located in the folder /lib/modules/{kernel-version}/kernel/sound

2. Rebuild the kernel with your currently selected modules built in rather than as modules.

3. make modules_install and copy your new kernel to boot (remember to make sure boot is mounted, many a linux veteran made a fool of himself like that:P)

4. Reboot and see if alsamixer gives you a mixer for your soundcard

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Despot Despondency · Apprentice Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 176

Thanks freestyling, that worked. Still would like to know why I can't build the kernel with the sound card as a module.