Re: [linux-audio-user] nVidia MCP51 HDA

On 7/31/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 07:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Thanks for responding. I *think* this was my problem. It seemed
> > that alsaconf didn't find the card until I actually built the driver.
>
> Why are you even using alsaconf for a PCI device? It's only needed for
> old ISA stuff. hotplug/udev/whatever should automagically load the
> right driver for a PCI card on boot.
>
> Lee

Lee,
   Sometimes I don't get where you are coming from with these strong
statements...

   There was no driver to be loaded since I hadn't built any drivers
when I built the kernel. As I said earlier, I didn't *know* what
driver to build. It's a new machine. I didn't recognize the hardware.
I didn't know what to do so I thought alsaconf would help me. There
was no indication for a new user of this NVidia hardware that the
NVidia HDA had anything at all to do with the Intel HDA. You might
think I'm stupid. I suppose I am. Sorry. It just wasn't clear to me
and I don't think it would be any clearer to most purely user types.
We reside in a lower place my friend.

   So, as I said earlier, it was my thought that alsaconf, which does
configure PCI devices quite fine thank you, would look at the PCI
device ID, build a new modprobe.conf entry, and in doing that it would
tell me what driver to build, albeit a bit indirectly. Unfortunately
it didn't work that way *until* I built the driver. At that point
alsaconf built modprobe.conf just fine.

   Anyway, I disagree that on a machine that has absolutely no audio
drivers built that anything is going to load a driver automagically.
Built I'm a stupid guitar player do what the F do I know.

- Mark
Received on Tue Aug 1 04:15:02 2006