Timur Tabi wrote: > I have a customer who says that mplayer (using OSS) does not work when he tries > a kernel based on 2.6.23-rc4, but it works when he uses a kernel based on > 2.6.21. Everything else is the same (including the version of alsa-lib), so I > presume something broke in the OSS emulation in the kernel. It could also be a change in the driver. And it would be nice to know what "does not work" actually means. > Is it possible to back-level the ALSA support in the kernel itself? The alsa-kernel tree is only compatible with the current development kernel. The alsa-driver package works with older kernels, but must be compiled seperately. > Can I just download ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.XX.tar.bz2 > and follow the instructions in the INSTALL file? Yes. > If you update the kernel, are you supposed to use the latest alsa-lib as well? No; the kernel and lib versions are more or less independent. HTH Clemens _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
