[SOLVED] Problems with sound

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 12:18:09PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   After the umpteenth repetition of kernel-rebuild/reboot/alsaconf, alsa
> has mysteriously started working again (mpg123, mplayer, audacious, etc).
> The only thing that I did differently was to...
> 
>   - remove kernel-based alsa support entirely (not even built as a module)
>     in favour of alsa-driver and rebooted.

Makes it sound like your userspace alsa and the kernel stuff wasn't the
same version.

>   - when I rebuilt the kernel with alsa support and re-booted, it worked
> 
>   gcc is "economical" in that it only rebuilds what is necessary.  I
> assume that it was including some previous-version stuff rather than
> overwriting it with new code.  Totally removing alsa support may have
> cleaned it out, and allowed for a fresh start when building it the next
> time.

No gcc does what it is told.  Make tries to be efficient.

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