Futher I just checked, the generic ASoC AC97 CODEC driver can only be built as a module. How come can you have it built-in the kernel? Didier Le 23/10/2020 à 18:04, Didier Spaier a écrit : > Here: > > didier[~]$ zgrep -i ac97 /proc/config.gz > CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m > CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE=y > CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=0 > CONFIG_SND_SOC_AC97_BUS=y > CONFIG_SND_SOC_AC97_CODEC=m > CONFIG_AC97_BUS=m > > Unless you are building a custom kernel I am a bit surprised: > as far as I know pretty much all distributions ship kernels > with ac97 provided as modules. > > Didier > > Le 23/10/2020 à 17:51, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : >> 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. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list