On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Lee, > OK, I'll play along. I'm a new user setting up a new machine. I > don't know what driver to build. How do I find out without resorting > to joining lists or doing long, boring web searches. I looked at the > alsa-project.org sound card lists didn't show it. It only listed the > intel8x0 driver which was all I built before I started writing emails. > > Next, what do you mean by 'built and installed the driver'? Since > nothing tells me to use the Intel HDA driver the only way I think this > logic holds up is if I build every single driver offered by the kernel > and hope for the best. I'm sure you're not really suggesting that > path... > > And alsaconf worked just fine, but only once the driver was built. > My original thought, which seemed innocent enough, was that alsaconf > understood all the PCI IDs and then determined what driver to put in > modprobe.conf from that. Apparently not. > You're right, it doesn't help with choosing the driver to compile. I was just referring to alsaconf which chooses the driver to load. It assumes that they are all present, as would be the case if a distro kernel was used. Lee
