I keep hearing so many horrer stories about getting ALSA going that I hardly find the worth in even trying. I understand it is supposed to work better than OSS like recording better and more reliably and to allow full duplex operation with Speak Freely but... I wonder why the compilation procedures for ALSa have been so unpredictable and apparently flakey. On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:54:25PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > I have also been unable to compile that version of alsa on my > Slackware system with kernel 2.4.18, and have had the same error > messages. I have had success compiling 0.9.0beta11 and am > sticking with it. My card is an sblive though, not an awe64. > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Adam Myrow wrote: > > > Well, hearing how once people get it working, everybody seems to be quite > > pleased with Alsa, I've been trying to get it to compile. I am using > > Slackware Linux with kernel 2.4.19 and trying to build Alsa 0.9.0-RC3. > > The drivers aren't compiling and giving a string of errors having to do > > with conflicting definitions and such. I am trying to use a Soundblaster > > AWE64. I know that this card has been around for awhile so I was thinking > > that maybe an older version would be more likely to build. Is there a > > particular version that is known to work well with this card? Otherwise, > > I can provide the rather long list of warnings and errors I am getting and > > go from there. I'm doing this so I can use full duplex with Speak Freely. > > I had found a hack to sort of get full duplex to work with the kernel > > drivers, but it would generate a lot of record overrun errors and lengthy > > pauses. Any ideas welcome. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (76% of Full) > So visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
