[pulseaudio-discuss] Needed kernel modules for pulseaudio

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Thu Jun 12 13:16:34 PDT 2008


On Thu, 12.06.08 00:04, Michael Schöller (michael.schoeller at schoeller-soft.net) wrote:

> I'm really sorry if this is the wrong place to ask or if this question 
> was already answered 100 times before but I did not find anything about 
> this.
> 
> I'm running Fedora9 on an PS3. I configured pulseaudio and with the 
> default kernel sound is running fine. Now I want to compile my own 
> kernel. So I download the newest kernel sources from the ps3 kernel tree 
> and created an config file with make ps3_defconfig. Well with this 
> kernel sound aplay is working so sound support seems to be ok. The 
> problem is that it looks like pulse audio is not finding the sound 
> device. The mixer applet in gnome stop working too.
> So my question is what have to be activated in the kernelconfig, so that 
> pulseaudio (or maybe audio, I'm not really sure if this is an pulseaudio 
> problem) is working again. Maybe it has something to do with HAL support 
> but I know really nothing about that stuff so I hope some "sound 
> experts" could give me an Hand.

Check if your sound card is found by "lshal". If it is, is it tagged
as ALSA device, i.e. bears properties that begin with "alsa."?

Lennart

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