[alsa-devel] ALSA with Ubuntu 8.04

[Ben Stanley]

I happened to be in this territory a couple of nights ago... so here's a
summary of what I learned.

The priority order for the case of multiple modules with the same name
may be controlled by modifying /etc/depmod.conf .

As Takashi says, and quoting from `man depmod.conf`:

By default, depmod will give a higher priority  to  a  directory
with  the  name  updates  using  this  built-in  search  string:
"updates built-in" but more complex  arrangements  are  possible
and are used in several popular distributions.


Other directories may be given priority by specifying your own search
line as follows:
in /etc/depmod.conf
-------------------------
search my-custom-drivers updates built-in
-------------------------

After installing a new module (and perhaps manually running depmod), you
can check which module will actually be used with
grep my-module-name /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep

This takes out all the guesswork and makes success a 'sure thing' :-) .

Ben Stanley.


On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 11:47 +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.
> 
> regards
> 
> Eliot.
> 
> 
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