Re: building kernel for ac97 sound card

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I think my mistake was having ac97 built into the kernel; could be ac97
doesn't like that housing.  I'll try rebuilding that as a module and see
if I get further.  The linux kernel configuration is so complex it's not
easy to know which things need to be in the kernel as built-ins and
which need to be modules.

On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:22:10
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: building kernel for ac97 sound card
>
> The sound card drivers are modules, so just build the module if need be.
> Ac97 sounds pretty standard to me though, so I think it should be part of the
> standard setup already.
> The pc speaker is something else though.
> There is a module called pcspkr which allow the use of that.
> All pc's does not have a speaker though.
> Maybe I am missing something in your message?
> Regards, Willem
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
> > I have an ac97 sound card and a c-media usb sound card on a system.  I
> > have only had success activating the pcspeaker when building a kernel for
> > gentoo.  I have no clue as to what to enable to get this done.  This is
> > even after having gone through lspci output and lsmod output with the
> > install-minimal dvd running the operating system  The speaker-test utility
> > puts out sound in the chroot environment and is silent after first boot
> > into the new environment made by the compiled kernel.
> >
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