MikeyD wrote:
> Ray wrote in <jBMYe.248868$Hk.220129@pd7tw1no>:
>
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>>I think I may have shot myself in the foot while compiling my kernel and
>>removing stuff I didn't need... I think I removed alsa support... but
>>there's no option labelled "ALSA" ... there's lots of sound options, but
>>none specifically ALSA...
>
>
> The sound options in 2.4 are all for OSS. If you want to use ALSA you have
> to leave them out, or at least have them as modules, and then compile
> alsa-driver yourself with your new kernel.
>

oh... does this mean that by recompiling my kernel I broke ALSA and have
to recompile it as well and that's why it's not working?

would this be a shared library thing or kernel interface or ??? - I'm
still confused how ALSA actually loads if it's not loaded in any rc
scripts and not compiled into the kernel.

Ray
(trying to both fix the problem and understand how it all works at the
same time.)