[Eug-lug] esound and devfs?

Jacob Meuser jakemsr at jakemsr.com
Fri Aug 6 13:20:08 PDT 2004


On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:43:00PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
> Since this was a new machine, I did a genkernel build so Gentoo could
> figure out what I have.  So it may be using Alsa and I don't know it.
> Previously I used OSS over Alsa but I remember doing genkernel this time
> around.
> 
> Does esound not work with Alsa?  Or is there an alternative that alsa
> provides?

You should add alsa to USE for gentoo.

For programs that aren't built to use ALSA natively, modload the ALSA
OSS compatability modules, snd_oss_*.

-- 
<jakemsr at jakemsr.com>


More information about the EUGLUG mailing list