[alsa-devel] Takashi: please help (compiling alsa-driver)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:31:38 +0800,
Raymond Yau wrote:
> 

> > I'm talking to you directly because this
> >
> >
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-unstable-snapshot.tar.gz
> >
> > is the only alsa-driver source that I'm able to compile so far. I can
> unpack this and simply run ./configure && make && make install. It works
> great. (I compile against the kernel-headers from ubuntu).
> 
> But there are warning message for four sound card modules  when build in
> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
> 
> Section mismatch in reference from the function snd_bt87x_detect_card() to
> the variable .devinit.rodata:snd_bt87x_ids
> The function snd_bt87x_detect_card() references
> the variable __devinitconst snd_bt87x_ids.
> This is often because snd_bt87x_detect_card lacks a __devinitconst
> annotation or the annotation of snd_bt87x_ids is wrong.
> 
> Section mismatch in reference from the function generic_oxygen_probe() to
> the variable .devinit.rodata:oxygen_ids
> The function generic_oxygen_probe() references
> the variable __devinitconst oxygen_ids.
> This is often because generic_oxygen_probe lacks a __devinitconst
> annotation or the annotation of oxygen_ids is wrong.
> 
> Section mismatch in reference from the function xonar_probe() to the
> variable .devinit.rodata:xonar_ids
> The function xonar_probe() references
> the variable __devinitconst xonar_ids.
> This is often because xonar_probe lacks a __devinitconst
> annotation or the annotation of xonar_ids is wrong.

These errors can be ignored.
It happens because __devinit* stuff have been dropped in the
upstream kernel.

> Do the latest version of alsa-lib require any specific parameter to install
> on Ubuntu 12.04 for testing the channel map ?
> 
> alsa-lib/test/chmap -D hw:0 query
> 
> ALSA lib conf.c:3314:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library
> libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2223:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:0
> Cannot open PCM stream hw:1 for PLAYBACK

Seem you didn't install the conf_pulse module properly, no?

> > I spent hours in trying to compile from several other sources.
> >
> 
> What is the proper way to build from git since alsa-driver-build.git only
> contain README

The build stuff is included in build branch as seen in README.


Takashi