sarta53 wrote: > I have an older version of a Knoppix liveCD (knoppix 3.4, kernel 2.4.26) that I remastered to compact flash. Due to the labor of the CF install, updating to a newer version of knoppix (or newer kernel) is not an option. > > It is using the OSS sound system but I believe it has a trimmed down version of ALSA installed also. > > I want to switch to ALSA for the latest version of flash. > > What steps would I take to check to see if ALSA is installed, how can I switch to ALSA, and if ALSA isn't installed, how hard would it be to install ALSA to this system? > Note that I am not an expert (alsa developer), and these instructions could be wrong. You can look in /usr/lib and /lib to see if libasound.so.2.0.0 is installed. To install a later alsa, go to <ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/snapshot/>ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/snapshot/ to get development snapshots kindly provided by Takashi Iwai. You will need to compile and install them as root, using ./configure, make, make install. You will need headers for your kernel installed during the compile. There could be other things you will need to install if they are missing on your system and required for the compile. It should be straightforward to install it, make install. Read the directions in the downloaded snapshot. Switching to alsa if your system hasn't been setup for it means editing some of the init scripts and creating folders I think. The install might do that for you. You'll have to investigate how your distro does things. By the way, adobe now maintains a flash repository. If you do a search you should be able to download the latest and greatest version of flash for GNU/Linux (in binary only, of course). > Thanks! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
