On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: > 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. Yes, why not just upgrade alsa. To upgrade the modules, download alsa-drivers... untar it, ./configure, make make install. and the others are essentially as easy. The kernel will always be a year or so behind. > > 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. Why reboot? Before you run make install, do rmmod name-of-your-snd-module Then do depmod modprobe nameofyoursndmodule > > 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
