Can you help me?

[Thanh Trung]

I ran 'make install' command to install 'ALSA 0.5.10b' for my sound-card, YAMAHA-744B. I waited for a long time(about 50 minutes), but it hasn't been compiled. Why long while my computer is PIII-500Mhz and 96 MB SDRAM? I really worried about it and tetchied :mad: . I broke it by Ctrl-C. While compiling, I also saw a lot of messages like '[Make 174] Clock skew detected. You build may be incomplete'. Can you help me? Tell me what I need to do now. Can you estimate indispensable time to compile ALSA with my system?

Thanks.

PS: I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.1 and I really want to use my sound-card, YAMAHA-744B to play music in Linux. Please help me.
:)

[pbharris]

hello,
are tehre any other commands? it takes me 20 minutes to do my entire kernel, so there is no way a PIII 500 should be taling 50 minutes for a module, although if it is still doing stuff you may want to let it go. I would also see if there are any ther options to make, like make clean...

[Molecule Man]

Actually, I found compiling LAME takes much longer than a kernel compile. and when I compiled an rpm for my printer driver it took hours.

Basically, if the computer is not locked, don't stop it, you might need to give it a couple of hours. Plus your limited amount of ram might be slowing it down, you did install with enough swap correct?

[bdg1983]

Please don't crosspost. Not fair for everyone else.

Maybe you did not understand the last time it was suggested to you.

Just pick one forum, post your question once and be patient.

[Thanh Trung]

Following your helping, I installed ALSA successfully. But I still can not play music in Linux Mandrake 7.1. When booting Linux, these messages appear:

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Apr 6 14:28:17 localhost modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/snd.o:
Apr 6 14:28:17 localhost modprobe: invalid parameter parm_snd-cards-limit
Apr 6 14:28:17 localhost modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/snd.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/snd.o failed
Apr 6 14:28:17 localhost modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/snd.o: insmod snd-card-ymfpci failed
Apr 6 14:28:17 localhost sound: Starting alsa sound driver snd-card-ymfpci failed
Apr 6 14:28:17 localhost modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/snd.o:
Apr 6 14:28:17 localhost modprobe: invalid parameter parm_snd-cards-limit
Apr 6 14:28:17 localhost modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/snd.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/snd.o failed
Apr 6 14:28:17 localhost modprobe: /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/snd.o: insmod snd-card-0 failed
Apr 6 14:28:17 localhost sound: Loading sound module (snd-card-0) failed
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Here is the contents of file '/etc/conf.modules':

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alias net-pf-4 ipx
alias block-major-11 scsi_hostadapter
alias usb-interface usb-uhci
post-install usb-storage modprobe usbkbd; modprobe keybdev
alias scsi_hostadapter usb-storage
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
post-install supermount modprobe scsi_hostadapter
# ALSA native device support
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd-cards-limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ymfpci
options snd-card-interwave snd_index=0 snd_id="YMF774"

# OSS/Free setup
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

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Please tell me what next I need to do to can play music in Linux Mandrake 7.1?

Thanks a lot.

PS: My sound-card is YAMAHA-774B. It's a chipset cements on GIGA mainboard.