At Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:47:13 +1200, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
This just an FYI
In Ubuntu 8.04, ubuntu has packaged alsa-drivers including some out of tree drivers in a separate package: linux-ubuntu-modules-$kernelver
This gets installed in /lib/modules/$kernelver/ubuntu/sound
The only things installed in /lib/modules/$kernelver/sound are soundcore.ko and ac97_bus.ko
However, when you do a default "make install" from alsa-driver source, the modules get installed in /lib/modules/$kernelver/kernel/sound
So, now there are 2 copies of the drivers in different places.
I have taken to removing (moving away to say /root) /lib/modules/$kernelver/ubuntu/sound to avoid any confusion and some odd module versioning problems that I was having.
FYI, the installation path can be specified via --with-moddir configure option, too.
Takashi