On Wednesday 10 October 2007 20:20, Lars 'Levia' Wesselius wrote: <huge snip of all the previous content> > I think Ill wait for the new kernel for my distro, as I do not really need > sound at the moment. I'll need it later, but I suspect by then the new > kernel will be available. Thanks for all your help, and effort! > > Lars Hi Lars. I hadn't upgraded an alsa driver before, but tried it out on my Fedora 7 install, and it upgraded ok. On Saturday a week ago I thought I'd install Archlinux to see if there were any problems upgrading an alsa driver on it. the only iso I could find was the core.iso, so downloaded and installed that. I had a few problems with installing X, KDE, along with some other things I needed to fix, but it's up and running now. This is the "Don't panic" version. I posted to the Archlinux forum to see which packages needed to be installed to upgrade kernel drivers, but with no replies. Yesterday there were some updates for alsa packages (alsa-lib, alsa-utils, alsa-oss), and also an upgrade for the kernel. Post upgrade I checked with Jacman to see which versions of the alsa packages were now installed. All the above were now at version-1.0.15. Unfortunately, doing a cat /proc/asound/version still showed the new kernel using alsa driver 1.0.14. So to hell with it I thought. I'll try and upgrade the alsa driver. If it works it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't, and that's all there is to it. As it turned out, this was really simple. I'd already downloaded the latest alsa driver from http://alsa-project.org/ , so just did the following stuff. cd to where you downloaded the alsa driver, then do. tar xjvf alsa-driver-1.0.15.tar.bz2 this creates a new directory, so cd to the new directory. cd alsa-driver-1.0.15 Now run. ./configure If all goes well follow this by the command. make If make runs to completion with no errors, su to root, and run. make install Reboot, and run cat /proc/asound/version to verify that the alsa driver is the latest version. You still may have to consult the Alsa-Configuration.txt doc to set model options for your ALC268 codec, so as to be able to get the sounds working. I may have missed some stuff here, so post back, on, or off list, if there are problems. Nigel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
