On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 22:33 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > I try to help folks now and then with sound problems. I don't have an hda > intel card, but try to point folks in the right direction to get help. > > Question: > I've sorted out the upgrading of the alsa driver on Fedora, Archlinux, and > Debian, even though I don't need too, as my audigy2 soundblaster, and on the > other machine, an ensoniq (ens1371) are fine. this was from the latest 1.0.15 > release at http://alsa-project.org. > > My question is to do with the nightly hg releases obtainable from. > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/snapshot/driver/ > > Will these install using the same ./configure, make, (su to root), then make > install, as with upgrading to the current 1.0.15 version from. > http://alsa-project.org. > Yes. These are essentially the same as the release, but with daily snapshot code. Just untar, ./configure, make && make install. > Sorry if this is a trivial question, but I don't want to give bad information > to folks looking for help. No problem, the more help the better. > I've only recently subscribed to the alsa-devel list, and hadn't realised how > much effort was being put in to resolve soundcard problems, particularly hda > intel ones. > Considering laptop and desktop systems all come with Intel HD Audio these days, the need for support in this area is increasing exponentially. Any help you can provide is great. I have a user on #alsa irc that wrote a great little script that uploads system information to a website for developers to use. It has proven to be very helpful. You can get it here: http://bulletproof.servebeer.com/alsa/scripts/alsa-info.sh -- Tobin Davis MIPS: Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
