[alsa-devel] Cannot combine audio devices with more than 64 channels

[Jörg Müller]

Thanks, that worked! However, in Ubuntu, the package is called
"libasound2" instead of "alsa-lib".

2017-01-28 0:14 GMT+01:00 Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp>:
> On Jan 27 2017 22:16, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:03:16 +0100,
>> Jörg Müller wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the patch, that was fast!
>>>
>>> So I want to apply that patch to my system (Ubuntu Studio 14.04). How
>>> do I proceed? I guess, the patch wont be available via apt-get soon,
>>> right?
>>
>>
>> I have no idea about Ubuntu.  Ask Ubuntu people.
>
>
> Ubuntu 14.04 is one of LTSs, while development for this release already
> finished three years ago. Basically, packages for the release are not
> updated unless some exceptions.
>
> In your case, you can generate alsa-lib related packages with the patch by
> your own. But no one can care of your packages and you need to do everything
> to be required.; e.g. even if you encounter issues from the generated
> packages, no one can help you.
>
> $ sudo apt-get install build-essentials devscripts
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep alsa-lib
> $ cd /tmp
> $ apt-get source alsa-lib
> $ cd alsa-lib-*
> (apply the patch)
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
> (packages are generated in higher directory by one level)
>
> Perhaps, the above command lines are not enough. Some packages are still
> missing for packaging.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Takashi Sakamoto