[alsa-devel] Upgrading alsa drivers. current and hg from suse site

[Tobin Davis]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 22:33 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:

> I try to help folks now and then with sound problems. I don't have an hda 
> intel card, but try to point folks in the right direction to get help.
> 
> Question:
> I've sorted out the upgrading of the alsa driver on Fedora, Archlinux, and 
> Debian, even though I don't need too, as my audigy2 soundblaster, and on the 
> other machine, an ensoniq (ens1371) are fine. this was from the latest 1.0.15 
> release at http://alsa-project.org.
> 
> My question is to do with the nightly hg releases obtainable from.
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/snapshot/driver/
> 
> Will these install using the same ./configure, make, (su to root), then make 
> install, as with upgrading to the current 1.0.15 version from. 
> http://alsa-project.org.
> 

Yes.  These are essentially the same as the release, but with daily
snapshot code.  Just untar, ./configure, make && make install.


> Sorry if this is a trivial question, but I don't want to give bad information 
> to folks looking for help.

No problem, the more help the better.


> I've only recently subscribed to the alsa-devel list, and hadn't realised how 
> much effort was being put in to resolve soundcard problems, particularly hda 
> intel ones.
> 

Considering laptop and desktop systems all come with Intel HD Audio
these days, the need for support in this area is increasing
exponentially.  Any help you can provide is great.

I have a user on #alsa irc that wrote a great little script that uploads
system information to a website for developers to use.  It has proven to
be very helpful.  You can get it here:
http://bulletproof.servebeer.com/alsa/scripts/alsa-info.sh



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Tobin Davis  


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