alsa and kernel 2.6

alsa and kernel 2.6

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Kernel 2.6 uses alsa drivers by default, and that is great, but the alsa 
utilities are not available and need to be installed separately. The 
problem with that is that the util package matching the kernel alsa 
version will not compile. It dies with this error:

mv: cannot stat `t-ja.gmo': No such file or directory

Anybody have a similar problem? or is there another way to get the 
utilities? I need aplay, arecord, and amixer.



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alsa and kernel 2.6

[John covici]

Which utilities did you get -- you also need the libraries -- don't
forget that and you need the libraries to be installed before the
utils will compile.

on Monday 04/11/2005 Charles Hallenbeck(chuckh@hhs48.com) wrote
 > Kernel 2.6 uses alsa drivers by default, and that is great, but the alsa 
 > utilities are not available and need to be installed separately. The 
 > problem with that is that the util package matching the kernel alsa 
 > version will not compile. It dies with this error:
 > 
 > mv: cannot stat `t-ja.gmo': No such file or directory
 > 
 > Anybody have a similar problem? or is there another way to get the 
 > utilities? I need aplay, arecord, and amixer.
 > 
 > 
 > 
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Re: alsa and kernel 2.6

[Charles Hallenbeck]

I got the 1.0.8 libraries, oss package, and utilities.

The libraries compiled and installed okay, and I did an ldconfig. Then 
the oss package went in okay, but the utils failed with error I 
mentioned.

I guess I could turn off the kernel alsa support and begin with the 
drivers, then the rest of the chain. Would that make a difference do 
you think?


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Re: alsa and kernel 2.6

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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Re: alsa and kernel 2.6

[John covici]

Just as a note, if you are using Debian, the packages are up to date,
so you don't need to compile anything -- I am using them with my
2.6.11 kernel.

on Monday 04/11/2005 Charles Hallenbeck(chuckh@hhs48.com) wrote
 > 
 > I got the 1.0.8 libraries, oss package, and utilities.
 > 
 > The libraries compiled and installed okay, and I did an ldconfig. Then 
 > the oss package went in okay, but the utils failed with error I 
 > mentioned.
 > 
 > I guess I could turn off the kernel alsa support and begin with the 
 > drivers, then the rest of the chain. Would that make a difference do 
 > you think?
 > 
 > 
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Re: alsa and kernel 2.6

[Kirk Reiser]

Just install the alsa-base and alsa-utils packages from debian.  No
need to compile by hand any more.

  me

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Re: alsa and kernel 2.6

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Yep, did that. Love it!

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Just install the alsa-base and alsa-utils packages from debian.  No
> need to compile by hand any more.
>
>  me
>
>

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Re: alsa and kernel 2.6

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  the easiest way to get alsa running in Debian is to

apt-get install alsa-base

With the 2.6 kernel using alsa, that's all you should need.

Debian is a package based distro, you can build from source, but (most
of the time) can just install the package and start using the app.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:53:53PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> Kernel 2.6 uses alsa drivers by default, and that is great, but the alsa 
> utilities are not available and need to be installed separately. The 
> problem with that is that the util package matching the kernel alsa 
> version will not compile. It dies with this error:
> 
> mv: cannot stat `t-ja.gmo': No such file or directory
> 
> Anybody have a similar problem? or is there another way to get the 
> utilities? I need aplay, arecord, and amixer.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> The Moon is Waxing Crescent (10% of Full)
> "Things are in the saddle, and they ride mankind." Ralph Waldo Emerson
> Visit my download site at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
> 
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