[64studio-devel] Re: Need latest alsa drivers

[Free Ekanayaka]

  BB> Hello guys,
  BB> I bought a Asus laptop (A6Km Q7) which need the 1.0.12 alsa modules
 version
  BB> to play sound.
  BB> Actually it's the 1.0.11 version, so I try to recompile it with alsa
  BB> sources but with no success.
  BB> I understood that it was a wrong version of GCC, so I try to compile
  BB> it with both (4, 4.1)
  BB> but I go errors (at different levels for each). There was a handling
  BB> given by an alsa developer,
  BB> to patch the 1.0.11 version (echo "7a 57c1" >
  BB> /proc/asound/card0/codec97#0/ac97#0-0+regs)
  BB> but it doesn't work because the alsa-lib wasn't compile with the
  BB> debug=all option (./configure =?iso-8859-1?Q?=96with-debug=3Dall=29?=
 =?iso-8859-1?Q?=2E?=
  BB> What can I do ? Do you hava quick solutions or do I have to wait for
  BB> new release (including alsa 1.0.12)
Hi Benoit, alsa 1.0.11  is  known  to fail  building with  the  2.6.17
kernel (the shipped with the latest 64 Studio release).
However alsa 1.0.12 should be fine, it's available in Debian/unstable:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/alsa-source
you may want to run  dpkg-reconfigure alsa-source to compile only  the
modules you need. Remember also to use gcc 4.1.
A command like
m-a build alsa
should work.
I did not test  it yet, but  I plan to include  alsa 1.0.12 in next 64
Studio release.
Ciao,
Free