On Thursday 30 October 2008 6:03:55 pm Klaus Schulz wrote: > Hi folks. > > I prepared an unofficial Alsa-Installation (now 1.0.18) script for the > Ubuntu Community. > The intention is mainly to be up2date on the drivers, since this - the lack > or limited functionality > of drivers (I am aware of the reasons behind it) is IMO still one of the > biggest > weaknesses within Linux. Therefore it is IMO crucial to have the latest > driver available. > As you know most of the distributions make things worse since these are > usually one major release behind. > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=962695 > I will check this out, and see if i can make any suggestions.. also, you could specify a seperate dir to hold the NEW modules, and update the depmod search path (this is how i frequently tell ubuntu users to install alsa, from source). > For standard installations the script seems to work fine. We should be able to do a few tests, to determine things, and handle them differently etc.. If you've ever looked at the alsa-info.sh script, you'll know what i mean.. When originally writing that script, i wanted to take into account what 'interface' (if any) to use to display the output.. what information to collect (ac97/hda-intel) etc.. > Quite some people have been/are using it. > And of course responding to it - mainly about problems on specific sound > cards. > > I am wondering if things can be improved in the script. I would appreciate > if > somebody of the designers around here could have a quick look at it. Im certainly no real expert, but it sounds like it would be a handy script, so worth a look into. > > I am not so deep into Alsa that I can cover severe problems brought up over > there. How would you recommend to handle this? > > THX. > > Cheers > Klaus > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel Thanks, Travis Place (wishie) _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
