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patch -p0 -i pcm.patch pcm.h
make[4]: patch: Command not found
for k/ubuntu it should be /usr/bin/patch
In general:
Code:
$ sudo make
... should you be running make as root here? Usually you are only expected to be root for the install step.
Make sure that the functionality you seek is not already available by another means before compiling your own packages. Realtech HD audio is usually the same as intel HD audio - the drivers come with the kernel. Very new chipsets may need the latest drivers and some implimentations need vendor-specific settings.
ah, ok. I used sudo there to see if that was what the error was about.
Nah - you'd have got "permission denied" instead. Instead you are told it isn't there.
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"for k/ubuntu it should be /usr/bin/patch"
so how do I change it?
... first check that "patch" is where it is supposed to be. You may have missed a package.
sudo apt-get install patch
Then check that /usr/bin is in your path
echo $PATH
Then check the tarball for documentation - there is often something to edit in the toplevel makefile though the configure script is supposed to do that.
Because when I was on my M$ system I everest told me all I needed to know.
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Originally Posted by Simon Bridge
What about your mobo site like they say?
They don't have instructions
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Originally Posted by Simon Bridge
Nah - you'd have got "permission denied" instead. Instead you are told it isn't there.
Yeah, I do remember getting that error
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Originally Posted by Simon Bridge
... first check that "patch" is where it is supposed to be. You may have missed a package.
sudo apt-get install patch
Done
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Originally Posted by Simon Bridge
Then check that /usr/bin is in your path
echo $PATH
Then check the tarball for documentation - there is often something to edit in the toplevel makefile though the configure script is supposed to do that.
I skipped all of that after make and make install ran correctly.
Lib was success as well, but Utils gave me this error when I ran ./configure:
"configure: error: required curses helper header not found"
Because when I was on my M$ system I everest told me all I needed to know.
Didn't tell you about creating the right build environment - what else got left out?
GNU/Linux is different. You almost never need to compile a sound driver for this manufacturers cards unless you have an old or minimal distro. Realtech HD audio cards very often work with the supplied intel HD driver. Have you tried configuring it? What does lspci tell you about your soundcard? What about lsmod | grep snd ?
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configure: error: required curses helper header not found
sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev
whenever you get an error about something "not found" it means you have to install it, or add it to your path. Pasting the error message into a search engine will usually tell you what to do.
Yeah, Sound was working. I wanted to try upgrading the driver for the possibility of better sound quality.
I take it then that you have tried the audio under another OS and enjoyed the quality more? Can you describe what is wrong with the quality under the linux driver?
Have you tried upgrading the installed driver? - with the *buntus this is very easy.
I decided to go look - according to the readme that comes in the tarball, the source code is already in the kernel - it comes from the alsa project. In fact, your configure line is:
./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
We used to see sound quality issues with these chipsets, but they have pretty much cleared up in recent kernels.
So - it looks like you are doing far more work than you need to.
The main difference from the readme is that ubuntu relies more heavily on pulseaudio ... so alsamixer works but alsaconf does not. From all this, I feel I must strongly urge you to install the latest mainline kernel and see if there is any improvement that way.
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