On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Jeffrey Scott Flesher Gmail jeffrey.scott.flesher@gmail.com wrote:
I have read this article over a few times, trying to remove the kernel and Reiser4 instructions; and I got a little confused; although I did get it to compile and now it see's the GR-55 as a sound device; I tried to jack it to the output but got no audio; what should I do to test it?
I would just use aplay with a plain wav file and see what it does. And then try arecord to see whether you can capture any input signal.
Do these instructions look correct?
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sudo dpkg -i linux-*.deb uname -r # 2.6.39-rc3-gr55+
Very good, this is the desired result.
One thing strange was that it locked up on reboot, showing rc3, but a reset with previous kernel, I saw the gr55 version so I picked it; it worked as stated above; just don't know why it didn't set this version as default, maybe a step I missed.
No, it's all good. The reason why it locked up might be that you are now using a premature kernel which has not been officially released. At the moment, as Linus' mainline tree is in a rather stable phase (due to a new release coming up the next days or so), what you could also do is
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git git checkout -b alsa git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git master
As of today, that should give you give a 2.6.39-rc7+ version. But for testing whether the patch works, the approach you took is totally fine I think.
Daniel