Hi, Christoph Maurer hat gesagt: // Christoph Maurer wrote: > Can anyone give me a brief introduction how to setup ALSA for Debian > Woody. I've never used Debian up to now so I'm not familiar with the > Debian way to get ALSA working. > > I've found that included on my Woody cds are only modules for 2.4.16 > but I'm using Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4. So I think I have to recompile the > modules. I often did this for other distributions but never for > Debian. I read something about make-kpkg. Is there any advantage in > comparison to the standard way ./configure, make, make install?
Yes, the big advantage is: You cannot break anything and make your machine unbootable. Well, in fact, you might can, but you can blame the make-kpkg maintainer then ;) The most simple solution for you would be to install kernel-image and alsa-modules, that match each other. AFAIK the bf2.4 kernel is intended as an installation kernel. You might be better off, if you now install a kernel, that better matches your architecture, say 2.4.18-k7 or such. But then, you also need the respective alsa-modules-package, because the modules must match the kernel build. If you don't find the right combination, you will probably have to build kernel and modules on your own, but that is really made easy with the kernel-package. So just apt-get install kernel-source, alsa-source and kernel-package, plus all suggested packages. Then unpack the source archives under /usr/src and change to /usr/src/linux. Read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. I always look for the word "impatient" in that long file, because then you quickly find the explanation of make-kpkg "For the Brave and the impatient" ;) Configure, build and install the kernel, then reboot and build the alsa-modules with: $ cd <kernel source tree> $ make-kpkg modules_image Then install alsa-modules-XXXX.deb All done, now you can configure the alsa-modules. If you later want to build a newer version of the alsa-modules, you just install the newer alsa-source package and run "make-kpkg modules_image" again. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
