[pulseaudio-discuss] Does pulseaudio require alsa/oss

[John Frankish]

> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: pulseaudio-discuss-bounces at mail.0pointer.de[mailto:pulseaudio-
> >> discuss-bounces at mail.0pointer.de] On Behalf Of Colin Guthrie
> >> Sent: Tuesday, 11 May, 2010 12:55
> >> To: pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de
> >> Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Does pulseaudio require alsa/oss
> >>
> >> 'Twas brillig, and John Frankish at 11/05/10 08:55 did gyre and gimble:
> >>> Yes, I checked the distro (www.tinycorelinux.com) kernel config and things seem to be setup properly.
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything I can do to attempt to debug this?
> >>
> >> I'd suggest posting the kernel config somewhere so people can double
> >> check.
> >>
> >> The problem is going to be basically one of:
> >>  1) kernel not compiled with the right options
> >>  2) Too old a udev
> >>
> >> I'm not sure about debugging, but stepping through the code in
> >> module-udev-detect and adding in extra debug logs to see precisely
> >> where
> >> it fails would be a reasonable approach to nailing it down.
> >>
> >> Do other users on this distro have the same problem or are you the only
> >> one to report this problem?
> >>
> >> Col
> >>
> > Kernel config attached.
> >
> > I'm using udev-151, which I think should be recent enough
> >
> > I'm the one trying (and succeeding if we don't count udev) to make it
> work on the distro at the moment...
> 
> Nothing immediately jumps out at me there, but I'm not an expert in the
> kernel side of things.
> 
> Personally I'd ditch all of these:
> 
> CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
> # CONFIG_SOUND_TRACEINIT is not set
> # CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP is not set
> CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI=m
> CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX=m
> CONFIG_SOUND_MSS=m
> CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401=m
> CONFIG_SOUND_PAS=m
> CONFIG_SOUND_PSS=m
> CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
> # CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812 is not set
> CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850=m
> # CONFIG_SOUND_AEDSP16 is not set
> CONFIG_SOUND_KAHLUA=m
> 
> Doubt they would get in the way but they are all legacy OSS and we're
> very much trying to get everyone to stop using the old stuff.
> 
> 
> Col
Got it.

I was missing /etc/udev/rules.d/78-sound-card.rules

Now module-udev-detect works :)

Thanks for the help