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Bug 7802 - alsa-* packages fail to emerge/build with non-modular alsa kernel
Summary: alsa-* packages fail to emerge/build with non-modular alsa kernel
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Brandon Low (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-09-11 08:27 UTC by David Monk
Modified: 2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description David Monk 2002-09-11 08:27:56 UTC
I suppose that is the best briefest subject I could come up with.

Anyway, I am using the kernel mjc-sources, which has alsa drivers included in 
the kernel. I prefer to run my kernel without modules. Just a quirky 
preference, I suppose.
Several packages depend on alsa-driver, alsa-libs, or alsa-utils. These 
packages always fail to rebuild. I should never need alsa-driver now, since the 
driver is built in to the kernel. But, of course, alsa-utils and alsa-libs 
depend on this package. It's not just the ebuild dependency either. In alsa-
libs, in particular, it's in the configure portion of building the package that 
it fails needing the alsa-driver package. It's as if it can't find a proper 
version installed. And in reality, that package IS installed.
Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-09-11 08:41:58 UTC
try gentoo-sources
Comment 2 David Monk 2002-09-11 08:57:28 UTC
That's not a solution. That is unless things have changed. Do gentoo-sources 
provide alsa-drivers in the kernel? How about ppp with mppe support built in?
The only kernel I could find that allows me to run without modules, and still 
do what I need to do, is mjc-sources.
I suggest this is a problem with the packages in question, not the kernel 
source. Suggesting an alternate source, leaves me with a new set of issues.
Or, maybe this is a solution. considering the lm_sensors package won't build 
either, since the sensor driver is in the kernel and the kernel is not modular. 
But, if I wanted to run a modular kernel, I'd go back to SuSE.
Comment 3 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-09-13 12:06:33 UTC
The point is that gentoo-sources is the kernel which is supported by the
gentoo-linux distribution (Technically we support gentoo-sources,
vanilla-sources, xfs-sources, ppc-sources, sparc-sources, openmosix-sources, and
usermode-sources) lolo-sources, mjc-sources, ppc-sources-dev,
development-sources, and any other trees that may be added in the near future
are NOT supported Gentoo Linux kernels and have features which may cause
breakage of various packages in the Gentoo Linux world.