in the drivers directory, there is a README or an INSTALL file. It is fairly
long, but it contains alot of improtant information.
essentially you do the following (all more or less details in the above file)
- make the binaries (via configure/make)
- install the binaries (via make install - you need to be root
for this step, and the following steps)
- make the device nodes
- edit /etc/modules.conf
There are fairly explicit instructions about each, (and especially the last
step).
after all that, you will still need to enable the sound, once the module is
loaded. You will need to d/l and build/install at least one of the other
tarballs, possible libs, possibly utils - you will need to install either the
amixer (which was not so intuitive to me), or the alsamixer. I find alsamixer
quite ok for enabling and controlling the sound/sound volumn.
rgds,
-Greg
On 12-Sep-01 Brandon Dorman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With Alsa .9 beta 7 packages successfully unpacked and compiled, I get
no
> sound. It says at, "modprobe snd-card-audiopci" that it can't find
> it. Reading in the how-to, it says:
>
> Sound devices
> ALSA uses special devices in the /dev-tree. Make sure you have run the
> ./snddevices script in the
> alsa-drivers source directory.
>
> I ran "./snddevices" in where I had unpacked everything, which is
> /home/Brandon/alsab7/alsa-driver-0.9.0beta7/ as root. Should I move
> those directories to /usr/source or something? Do I have to recompile? I
> didn't know the location of the directory would affect that sort of
> thing. Thanks for any help.
>
> -Brandon
>
> p.s. Greg- I screwed up my VMware installation now, but I'll try to go
> through that whole process sometime. School is pretty busy right now, but
> I hope to do some work on the weekend. When it was working, on the VMware
> menu, I went to "USB" and it said, "Lexmark USB device," which tells me it
> saw it. Remember, Linux doesn't have the drivers for it or anything so
> that must mean that the USB works and that it was able to talk to it. But
> now I'll have to reinstall Windows under Vmware and the Lexmark
> software. I'm running stock RH 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2)
>
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E-Mail: Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12-Sep-01
Time: 13:15:17
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that has 2 of these 3 attributes -- but not all 3.
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