compiling alsa drivers.

compiling alsa drivers.

[Shaun Oliver]

Hi guys.
I've just upgraded to kernel 2.4.4 with the cvs version of speakup patched
in to it.
I want to know now how to go about compiling the alsa soundcard
drivers. is it just a matter of untaring them and compiling them or do I
have to do another kernel compile?
thanks in advance.


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Re: compiling alsa drivers.

[Gregory Nowak]

No kernel compiles if you specified sound
card support as modules. If not, then have fun recompiling.
As for the alsa stuff, get the alsa drivers, lib, and utils from
 the alsa site.
The README file in each package explains how to compile it.
First, do the drivers, then the libs, then the utils.
I should tell you though that I'm using ossfree myself.
Greg


On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:32:22PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> Hi guys.
> I've just upgraded to kernel 2.4.4 with the cvs version of speakup patched
> in to it.
> I want to know now how to go about compiling the alsa soundcard
> drivers. is it just a matter of untaring them and compiling them or do I
> have to do another kernel compile?
> thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Shaun..
> "We realise we have a problem with communication. However, we're not going
> to discuss it with our staff."
> EMAIL: shauno@goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435
> YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on
> www.jong.com:6667
> 
> 
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Re: compiling alsa drivers.

[Geoff Shang]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> No kernel compiles if you specified sound
> card support as modules. If not, then have fun recompiling.

Sound support doesn't have to be a module, it can be compiled in (mine is).
You want sound support but don't select any cards.

I don't know what the latest on the alsa 0.9 tree is.  I also don't know
about kernel 2.4.x compatibility.  Unless there's been any major
improvements lately, I'd probably recommend getting 0.5.11 or whatever the
latest in the 0.5.x tree is.  Comments Frank or anyone using 2.4?

Geoff.

Re: compiling alsa drivers.

[Frank Carmickle]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Sound support doesn't have to be a module, it can be compiled in (mine is).
> You want sound support but don't select any cards.
> 
> I don't know what the latest on the alsa 0.9 tree is.  

0.9 is a moving target.  It is going to be excellent when it is finished
however.  

> I also don't know about kernel 2.4.x compatibility.  Unless there's been
> any major improvements lately, I'd probably recommend getting 0.5.11 or
> whatever the latest in the 0.5.x tree is.  Comments Frank or anyone
> using 2.4?

2.4.2 did not work well with 0.5.10b.  Although this bug seemed to be
fixed when using 2.4.3 and 0.5.10b.  But everyone should be using 2.4.4 or
later seeing as how 2.4.3 was extremely problematic.  I am currently using
2.4.4 with 0.5.11.  I'll update to 2.4.5 here shortly.

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