From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Hofman Subject: Re: Some installation questions Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:07:09 +0100 Message-ID: <4B668BAD.7020103@ivitera.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from server.insite.cz (171-43-207-85.zapcechy.adsl-llu.static.bluetone.cz [85.207.43.171]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC9A24436 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:07:10 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Klaus Schulz Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Klaus Schulz napsal(a): > Hi there. > > I am still maintaining the (inoffical) Ubuntu Alsa Upgrade Script over at > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1046137 > > > Perhaps somebody can give me a hint on some installation problems I am > running into: > > > 1. Quite some people reporting that /proc/asound/version is still showing > the "original" revision after running the upgrade-script instead of > 1.0.22.1. > > What could be the issue? What is setting /proc/asound/version? > > > 2. I also introduced a kind of restore function. What it does is basically > reinstalling all the required Ubuntu packages from the repo to overwrite the > (by my script) upgraded files again. > a. My first problem was that I was only able to get the original modules > activated when running the module assistant. ( module-assistant -f -t -q a-i > alsa-source ) > Just a re-installation of kernel packages and alsa-packages didn't > work. > b. When redoing the Alsa Upgrade after the restore (by my script) , I > still see in /proc/asound the old Alsa version. > > Looks again a bit like I am having slight problems with the module > handling > > Hi, I do not know the actual cause. But some drivers in ubuntu are put to /lib/modules/kernel_version/ubuntu, the backports package used to put there alsa drivers too. Installing drivers from git required removing them from the ubuntu directory, or somehow forcing depmod -a to skip the directory. I do not remember the details, but you might have a look at that. Regards, Pavel.