Hi everyone! I'm currently expanding my knowledge of GNU/Linux to include building packages from scratch towards an overall goal of a custom distro. So far, I have a nice base for a command line OS, but want to expand into the multimedia aspect. Alsa was my first (only?) choice for the audio portion, but I'm running into problems. The alsa site is somewhat overwhelming to newbies and is easy to get lost. I have a few questions below from which I hope I can find help. All contributions are greatly appreciated. :) Thanks, Dave 1) Currently I have downloaded alsa-driver, alsa-lib, and alsa-utils packages. Is there an order in which these packages need to be compiled and installed? 2) I'm currently running the relatively new Linux kernel 2.6.33 so do I need the alsa-driver package? 3) I've been able to successfully compile the alsa-lib package and install it in the custom distro. When I try to compile the alsa-utils package, I constantly get the error: checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.16... not present. configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found. I'm actually using an existing Kubuntu installation to build the packages for my custom distro. As a result, after I compiled the newer alsa-lib, I didn't install the package into the Kubuntu OS, but rather a staging directory (/opt/staging/alsa). I'm sure the reason this is failing is because it's probably looking for /usr/lib/... or some other default location. How do I tell the configure script for the alsa-utils to look in the staging directory for the header files it needs? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
