rm@biteme.org wrote:

> Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:38:32 +0000, rm wrote:
>
>>> As you can see in the headers, we are having no problems using
>>> 2.6.20 except for sound (AC'97). The Alsa website claims that the
>>> 2.6.x kernels need the drivers compiled as modules to work. But
>>> each time we try to load the modules, which have compiled ok, we get
>>> errors.
>>
>> Horseshit. The ALSA drivers don't need to be modules. I've got
>> multiple machines here with ALSA enabled in the kernel, no
>> modules, and sound works fine on all of them.
>
> Read the Alsa site about their AC'97 drivers. Do you think you can
> find it?
>
> BTW: did you feel your head being squeezed?
>
> cordially, as always,
>
> rm

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

"There are two ways of getting Linux drivers to work, you can either compile
them into the kernel or build them separately as modules."

Yes I found it, yes it says you can do modules or in the kernel.