On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:20:45 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." <r...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hello Everyone, > > So I've been trying to get my laptop (ASUS u52) microphone to work. > First off, if anybody knows how to get the builtin microphone to work > without bothering with alsa-driver-linuxant, or if I didn't know the > correct google-foo to find a binary package for alsa-driver-linuxant > that works with debian, then please cut me off. > > Beginning how I (unsuccessfully) attempted to solve the problem, I > read at [1] that the workarounds at [2] worked for the u52. It says > that installing the linuxant alsa drivers fixes problems with the > microphone. So, I grab the latest version of the driver, unzip, and > try to install the deb package. It fails on configure, so I install > the kernel sources, make menuconfig (just accepting the defaults), etc > until I have a completely prepared source distribution. After copying > over version.h from /usr/include/linux, alsa-driver-linuxant > configures correctly. > > Here's where it begins to fall apart. I'm running debian unstable > amd64 on linux kernel version 2.6.39. First I find that > include/linux/smp_lock.h was removed from kernel 2.6.39. I try to get > away with just copying over the blob from version 2.6.38 (which seemed > to work). However, now CC is complaining about implicit declaration > of functions, which means the headers are all included but the > functions aren't there anymore AFAIK, which means that the interface > changed, which makes me think that the whole driver is incompatible > with kernel 2.6.39. Is this true? > > Is it possible for me to run the driver without downgrading the > kernel? Though I suppose it is an option... > > Thanks for any and all help, > > rbmj > > PS: If exact errors would help, I can supply. This seems like a > bigger issue (again, AFAIK) then just a normal compilation error. > > [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1668887 > [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1460790 > > Update: I went through some of the code and started to replace some of the lines that caused errors with the latest alsa-driver git blobs. These fixed some of the errors, but not all of them. However, after giving up, installing pulseaudio, giving up on that, rebooting a few times, updating a few times, giving up on that, and then forgetting about it, the microphone magically started working. -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110718145556.16ce7...@blairasus.mason.homeunix.org
