--- On Fri, 6/5/09, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Is alsa-version 1.0.20 or 1.0.18? > To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 10:15 AM > On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 07:11 +0200, > antonio montagnani wrote: > > Antonio Olivares wrote / ha scritto on /il 05/06/2009 > 05:22: > > > Dear fellow testers, > > > > > > I have been running rawhide > successfully for quite some time. On > > a home machine from which I only have dialup > connection I took it to > > school and updated a Fedora 11 Preview Installation > and am running > > with no troubles or not much at all. I ran > scanModem, the tool from > > LinModems to identify modems. It reports alsa > version to be 1.0.18, I > > also run ./alsa-info or something like that that it > outputs > > to /tmp/alsa-info.txt. I have attached the > output of both and see why > > one reports 1.0.18(ScanModem) and the other the > alsa-info.txt has > > several ones still reporting 1.0.18. Should not > they all match > > 1.0.20? Something appears to be wrong, and I'd > be better asking than > > be sorry later. > > > > > > Attached will be the files. > > > !!ALSA Version > > !!------------ > > > > Driver version: 1.0.18a > > Library version: 1.0.20 > > Utilities version: 1.0.20 > > This is normal. The drivers are provided as part of the > kernel, while > the libs and utils are provided as separate packages. It's > quite common > for the libs and utils to be somewhat ahead of the drivers, > as these get > updated as soon as the ALSA project makes a new release, > while the > kernel drivers get updated only on the upstream kernel's > schedule (we > don't replace the ALSA from the upstream kernel with the > latest version > from alsa-project.org) so they tend to be a bit slower. > > This doesn't cause any problems. Later libs and utils are > usually > perfectly compatible with slightly older drivers, and if in > any case > they aren't, our maintainers would simply hold up on > updating the libs / > drivers packages for a while. > > So, situation normal, don't panic :) > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT > org > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > I ran the alsa-info script at home and it is almost the same the driver is at 1.0.18a but the release is 1.0.19 while the soon to be Fedora 11 has alsa 1.0.20 [olivares@localhost ~]$ alsa-info --no-upload ALSA Information Script v 0.4.54 -------------------------------- This script will collect information about your ALSA installation and sound related hardware, to help diagnose your problem. Do you want to run this script? [y/n] : y Done! You requested that your information was NOT automatically uploaded to the www.alsa-project.org Your ALSA information can be seen by looking in /tmp/alsa-info.txt [olivares@localhost ~]$ cat /tmp/alsa-info.txt | more upload=true&script=true&cardinfo= !!################################ !!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.54 !!################################ !!Script ran on: Fri Jun 5 18:15:18 UTC 2009 !!Linux Distribution !!------------------ Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) Fedora release 10 (C ambridge) Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) !!Kernel Information !!------------------ Kernel release: 2.6.29.4-75.fc10.i686.PAE Operating System: GNU/Linux Architecture: i686 Processor: i686 SMP Enabled: Yes !!ALSA Version !!------------ Driver version: 1.0.18a Library version: 1.0.19 Utilities version: 1.0.19 ...... There may arise problems because of certain modem drivers require alsa stuff in them: For instance the agrsm packages like 11c11040 http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/11c11040/ and the SLMODEMD.gcc4.X packages: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ I hope you are correct Adam and there will be no such problems with this issue. In any case we'll see how things behave in the forseeable future. I was thinking that all three had to match, but I am no expert that is why I asked to be safe. Regards, Antonio CC'd to scanModem maintainer Marv Stodolsky Marv, You can run the script alsa-info.sh on Ubuntu also to get information for alsa. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems You can get the script from here: http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
