"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
My experience is that "modprobe es1371" doesn't cause "sound" to be loaded, although executing certain programs that refer to the sound module will cause it to be loaded. You can check: use rmmod to remove all the sound-related modules and then try "modprobe es1371". See if lsmod now shows "sound" to be loaded. For me, it isn't. So I load it explicitly.
Each module has dependencies that are resolved when you run 'depmod'. So, when you run 'modprobe', it will load the modules it depends on. If it doesn't load 'sound', then it doesn't need it. You can just load a module with 'insmod', this will just load the module if it can. If you have recompiled your kernel but not the modules, you may have failed dependencies and your modules may not load right. If you use SuSE supplied kernels and modules, then dependency problems are less likely. Right now I'm using the ALSA drivers, and these are what it loads: nd-pcm-oss 16680 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm-plugin 12840 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4244 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-ens1371 2008 1 (autoclean) snd-ens1371 9404 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm 28504 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] snd-timer 8032 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 9432 0 (autoclean) [snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 3360 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 23904 0 (autoclean) [snd-ens1371] snd-mixer 22576 0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd 31852 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer] soundcore 2564 5 [snd]
From karen's email, it seems that that is what she is using, because when your con't use ALSA, then oinly es1371 and soundcore are loaded.
Using dd and piping doesn't give good results, that may be the reason her recordings are bad quality. Right now I just used grecord and gmix from the Helix package. I recorded my voice only after I disabled the window manager and desktop sounds. -- Rafael -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/