[pulseaudio-discuss] Does pulseaudio require alsa/oss

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and John Frankish at 16/05/10 13:46 did gyre and gimble:
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>>>> discuss-bounces at mail.0pointer.de] On Behalf Of Colin Guthrie
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, 11 May, 2010 12:55
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>>>> Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Does pulseaudio require alsa/oss
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>>>> '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

Ahh nice one. Sorry for not helping to figure that missing link, but 
glad you got it sussed :)

Col

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