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I recently upgraded/recompiled my kernel to vanilla 2.4.22 kernel, then patched with low latency and openmosix support. I already had ALSA working for the previous 2.4.18 kernel, which I installed from the rpms at freshrpms.net. I need to rebuild my drivers for ALSA and was trying to do it from the source RPM. I tried:
yes i compiled the kernel, downloaded the source from kernel.org. So will this mean I have to compile all the ALSA files from source? Will the installed files need to be removed (rpm -e) first, and wil lthis break apps that rely on ALSA being installed?
I'm at work at the moment so i'll have to post the modules later. however, i can post the relevant section of modules.conf as per the alsa website:
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
# module options should go here
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
The apps that require ALSA are some sound apps (eg terminatorX, sweep, etc).
I wonder if i can just compile and install the alsa-driver from source?
I think the rebuild option will rebuild the alsa package, but , will not include any new libs from your new kernel.
A new ALSA release 0.9.7 came out a few days ago. I think you should get a new 0.9.7 rpm package if available or download all the libs, tools , utils and the driver itself and compile them all just to be sure your new kernel is supported.
I got ALSA to work for the new kernel by just compiling and installing the alsa-driver tarball. The new drivers worked fine with the already installed libs, utilities, etc.
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