[alsa-devel] Compiling pyalsa with the latest alsalib

[Raymond Yau]

>
> Together with a team, I am working on a multiseat project for which we
> need to access more than 32 sound cards on a Linux system (not all
> used simultaneously).
>
> We are running Ubuntu with a modified version of the 3.6.3 kernel. We
> used the code from Takashi Iwai's sound repository to patch the
> original 3.6.3 source to allow ALSA to recognize and name more than 32
> devices (since there was a bug introduced in the 3.8 kernel which
> threw a kernel panic when connecting more than 28 cards, we could not
> use the latest kernel). Currently, we can detect more than 36 sound
> cards, they have ids and names given in /proc/asound/cards. Before
> applying Takashi's patches, they would stop being named at id = 31. So
> this seems to be working all right.
>
> The problem comes when trying to access the cards using pyalsa. We
> downloaded the pyalsa 1.0.26 tar from
> ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/pyalsa/pyalsa-1.0.26.tar.bz2. We need
> to know how to compile pyalsa with the latest alsalib that supports
> more than 32 cards. If we run  pyalsa.alsacard.asoundlib_version()
> from the python interpreter, we get '1.0.25'. We know the latest
> version is 1.0.27 and we have put the alsa headers in
> pyalsa-1.0.26/pyalsa/alsa/ dir before compiling, but it doesn't seem
> to compile using these files and keeps saying version is 1.0.25.
>

You need to install alsa-lib 1.0.27.2

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=commit;h=2f43b66c06ece64529e482a6dcc95cde37648252