Mark Knecht schrieb: > Hi, > I wonder if anyone has a pointer to any web instructions on how to > replace an Alsa driver that has gotten broken in a new kernel release. > My ATIIXP sound chip has worked fine for months but suddenly it's > broken in a number of 2.6.7 kernels as well as 2.6.8-rc2. It appears > that a broken driver was released without testing, if I understand the > Alsa Bug Tracker correctly. Now there are comments about replacing the > driver in the kernel with the driver from CVS. I don't know how to do > this. > > This is how I replace the alsa stuff in the kernel source: 1. checkout the "alsa-kernel" module from the alsa-project cvs. Go to http://alsa-project.org/download.php for instructions. 2. cd into the kernel tld 3. move the sound/oss dir to some safe location 4. remove the "sound" directory 5. copy the checked out "alsa-kernel" dir into the kernel tld and rename it "sound" 6. remove "sound/oss" directory 7. move the "oss" dir from step 3 back into the "sound" dir 8. remove include/sound 9. move sound/include dir into the include dir. 10. unless I missed something you can now build and install kernel as usual. hth
