[alsa-devel] Next steps

[Tobin Davis]

Try running "./hgcompile".  It will rebuild the ./configure script and
build the drivers for you.

On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 22:47 -0500, Chris Schumann wrote:

> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 29 May 2007 11:52:55 -0500 (CDT),
> > chris at idlelion.net asked about alsa development
>  > ...
> > Both alsa-driver and alsa-kernel are repos for ALSA drivers, so you
> > need both.  The latter contains the source codes to be merged to linux
> > kernel tree while the former contains the stuff for building the
> > modules.
> > 
> > It's not always necessary to use HG version of alsa-lib, utils and
> > others.  But, at least, it's safe and recommended to use the latest
> > version of alsa-lib and utils together with alsa-driver.
> > 
> > 
> > Takashi
> 
> I'm running CentOS 5 and would like to keep the machine working for its 
> owner while I try to fix the sound driver.
> 
> I cloned alsa-driver and alsa-kernel from the hg repository. In 
> alsa-driver is a file called INSTALL.
> 
> Step 1 says I need full configured source for the kernel. "yum install 
> kernel-devel" seemed to do that.
> 
> Step 2 says turn on sound support. No idea what that means.
> 
> Step 3 says run ./configure. That file doesn't exist. There is a 
> configure.in that says it should be run through autoconf. If there's an 
> automated script to do that, its location isn't obvious.
> 
> There are over 4000 lines in the cs46xx module, so any tips on what's 
> important (other than the actual suspend and resume functions that I've 
> found) and where to start a search would be helpful too.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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