On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:15:37 -0700 tdavis@dsl-only.net wrote:
Quoting stan stanl@cox.net:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:09:31 -0700 tdavis@dsl-only.net wrote:
Quoting stan stanl@cox.net:
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:53:47 -0700 tdavis@dsl-only.net wrote:
For RPM based systems, I have a build environment for the drivers, libs, and utils packages at http://members.dsl-only.net/~tdavis/my-build.tar.bz2. You need to be root to build them, but they won't interfere with your rpm distribution. THe driver rpm will also make a backup of your current drivers prior to installation.
Tobin
Hi Tobin,
I unpacked the archive and typed make. It created 4 RPMs. Two of them installed, alsa-lib and alsa-lib-devel. When I run a test on the drivers rpm, there are conflicts with the kernel headers already on the box. And I have no sound now, except in the audio configuration screen which is using the 14.rc3 packages. The packages are named with rh7 instead of fc7 as well.
Do I have to run make install to get everything working, or is the header incompatability in the drivers a show stopper?
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I'll have to look at the rpm build process to see why they are named RH7 instead of FC7. To install, you should just type "audio_install".
If there is a conflict, just type "rpm -Uvh <package> --force".
Thanks Tobin. I was going to upgrade to the latest kernel to see if the header conflicts would go away. All of the conflicts seem to be alsa related (surprise, surprise) so should have only positive effect on compiles. I was concerned about a package update for alsa and what these different files would do. Should I remove the alsa 14.rc3 packages?
Yes. I just looked at the audio_install script again, and it doesn't upgrade, just forces it's way in (not my script). I also haven't had a chance to work with Fedora Core in a while.
When I get back home on Monday (I'm monitoring email while on a sudo vacation), I'll install it in a VM on my desktop system and fix the packaging system to recognize that distro.
Tobin
I did it another way. I went into your source rpm folder and ran RPM --rebuild alsa*. This put all of the final RPMs in the system folder /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386. i.e. the official place. I then went into the folder and ran rpm -Uvh --force alsa*. And the system upgraded to the new version. Unfortunately, this didn't work. I had to erase, then reinstall the 14.rc3 and remove the kernel and reinstall it before I got sound back. I also tried the audit install, but it complained and failed as well. I'll keep looking at this, but I'm beginning to think messing with something as basic as alsa is difficult on a package based system (at least without a lot of understanding of the packaging mechanism). And the sound is missing from my app whether I use default or plughw:0,0 now. The plughw:0,0 seems to setup OK and the app shows that it continues to send output, it just doesn't sound. Seems like it is just a small glitch somewhere. Could be leftovers from the cleaned up install too.