Mitul Sen (misen) wrote:
Thanks for your suggestions. For the first suggestion, how would I know the version of alsa-lib that I am using so that I can download the source code for the same? Is alsa-lib the same as libasound? Under /usr/lib/libasound.so I have a symbolic link to libasound.so.2.0.0. Is that then the version I should be looking for?
I am really new to this so please excuse me if these questions are too basic for this forum!
Thanks, Mitul
Good queston. I know because of the package. You can find the driver version by running cat /proc/asound/version and the utilities version by running aplay --version . I couldn't find a way to get the library version. You can use the run alsa-info.sh --no-upload and the output will have the driver, library, and tool version at the top. The script is found at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh
libasound is always version 2.0.0, no matter the alsa-lib version. I presume that is to facilitate testing and upgrading. Nothing will break with newer versions. So that is unrelated to alsa version.
You can find the latest beta versions of all the alsa source here
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changes_v1.0.17rc2_v1.0.17rc3
And a link to the latest stable release here http://www.alsa-project.org