[alsa-devel] Alsa driver compatible with 2.6.18 kernel

[reetesh chandran]

Thanks a lot Lee. Which Alsa driver version is the latest stable version, or which is most widely used ?

--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:


From: Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Alsa driver compatible with 2.6.18 kernel
To: "reetesh chandran" <reeteshchandran at yahoo.com>
Cc: alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 5:45 PM


On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:54 PM, reetesh chandran
<reeteshchandran at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a 2.6.18 kernel and I am using 1.0.12rc1 alsa driver. I am facing some issues and would like to get a newer alsa driver. I cant change the linux kernel version. Do you know which is the latest alsa driver which is supported on linux 2.6.18 ? How do I find that out ?

The latest should work.  New ALSA releases are backwards compatible
with old kernels.

Lee