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Re: alsa in livecd stage1: msg#00005

Subject: Re: alsa in livecd stage1
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 17:47 +0200, "Andreas Rückert" wrote:
> Is anyone currently using alsa in livecd-stage1? Doesn't work here,

Nope.

> because Alsa requires kernel configs. So I could move them to  
> livecd-stage2, where a kernel config exists.

That's what we do here.

> Problem is, that I want to compile KDE with USE="alsa", so 
> I'd have to move KDE plus all it's dependencies to stage2, which 
> would be most of our livecd.

Is this really a problem?  Does it really matter at what point KDE is
compiled?

> Another way is this hack: 
> http://www.tzi.de/~lippold/openca/HOWTO-OpenCA-Gentoo-BootCD.html 
> (see the Tips'n'Tricks section with the chroot.sh script) 
> , but I guess a fixed alsa script would be the easiest solution. 

No.  The alsa-driver ebuild requires a configured kernel for a reason.
You could always use the in-kernel driver and skip alsa-driver, but it
doesn't sound like that's something you want to do.

> Anyone with better ideas?

The simplest one.  Move KDE to livecd-stage2... ;]

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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