On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Eron Lloyd wrote: > On Saturday 03 November 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: >> On Saturday 03 November 2007 19:25, Eron Lloyd wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I'm trying to get my Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1 external USB >>> sound card to work with OpenSUSE 10.3, but I cannot find the drivers for >>> it, specifically the snd_usb_caiaq module. It doesn't show up in YaST, >>> but I remember reading that this version of ALSA includes those drivers. >>> Is there any reason OpenSUSE wouldn't include them? Could I manually link >>> this driver from the source? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Eron >> >> Hi Eron. I don't run SuSe, but I've just looked on my Debian Etch install, >> where I recently upgraded the Alsa driver to 1.0.15 (current stable) just >> for practice, and looking in /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686/kernel/sound/usb, >> the snd-usb-caiaq module exists. checking on an earlier kernel >> (2.6.18-4-686) where I havn't upgraded alsa to 1.0.15, the snd-usb-caiaq >> module doesn't exist. >> >> Which is your current alsa driver? Run, >> cat /proc/asound/version >> Before I upgraded the alsa driver, IIRC it was 1.0.12rc2 for this Debian >> kernel. >> >> The module you want may have just recently been added to the alsa driver, >> and upgrading the alsa driver may resolve your problem. Link below. >> http://alsa-project.org/ >> >> I've only practiced upgrading the Alsa driver on Fedora, Archlinux, and >> Debian, but you at least need the kernel headers installed for your running >> kernel. >> >> With Archlinux, the headers were all I needed. >> With Fedora, I needed the headers, and the kernel-devel package. >> With Debian, installing the headers also pulled in linux-kbuild-2.6.18 >> (obviously for the 2.6.18-5-686 kernel that I was going to upgrade the alsa >> driver against) >> >> Have a go at upgrading the alsa driver, as it may well resolve your >> problem. and please post back with which packages need to be installed to >> carry out this procedure on SuSe. >> >> Once you have downloaded the latest alsa driver, cd to it's location, and >> simply run, >> ./configure >> followed by >> make >> su to root, and then, >> make install >> >> Personally I reboot after all that has completed, and checking with, >> cat /proc/asound/version >> should now show the 1.0.15 version installed, and just maybe your problem >> is resolved. >> >> All the best. >> >> 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 > > Hello Nigel, > > First off, thanks for the response. I've built ALSA 1.0.15 from source (all > packages) and restarted the machine. Calling /proc/asound/version indeed > gives me: > > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.15. > Compiled on Nov 3 2007 for kernel 2.6.22.9-0.4-default (SMP) > > and the driver I seek, snd-usb-caiaq.ko, is indeed present in the directory > > /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-0.4-default/kernel/sound/usb/caiaq/ > > When attempting to configure it using the system tool YaST, however, I can't > see it in the list. Is there a way I could manually configure it using alsa > tools? Should I copy the module to the parent directory where the other > snd-usb-*.ko files are? depmod -a modprobe snd-usb-caiaq should be all you need to do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
