From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Travis Place Subject: Re: Ubuntu - Alsa Installation Script Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +1000 Message-ID: <200810310200.00960.wishie@wishie.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from www.wishie.net (202-137-100-224.dial.usertools.net [202.137.100.224]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF092448E for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:00:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from laptop.local (unknown [192.168.0.200]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.wishie.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392D2EC009 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:27:22 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thursday 30 October 2008 6:03:55 pm Klaus Schulz wrote: > Hi folks. > > I prepared an unofficial Alsa-Installation (now 1.0.18) script for the > Ubuntu Community. > The intention is mainly to be up2date on the drivers, since this - the lack > or limited functionality > of drivers (I am aware of the reasons behind it) is IMO still one of the > biggest > weaknesses within Linux. Therefore it is IMO crucial to have the latest > driver available. > As you know most of the distributions make things worse since these are > usually one major release behind. > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=962695 > I will check this out, and see if i can make any suggestions.. also, you could specify a seperate dir to hold the NEW modules, and update the depmod search path (this is how i frequently tell ubuntu users to install alsa, from source). > For standard installations the script seems to work fine. We should be able to do a few tests, to determine things, and handle them differently etc.. If you've ever looked at the alsa-info.sh script, you'll know what i mean.. When originally writing that script, i wanted to take into account what 'interface' (if any) to use to display the output.. what information to collect (ac97/hda-intel) etc.. > Quite some people have been/are using it. > And of course responding to it - mainly about problems on specific sound > cards. > > I am wondering if things can be improved in the script. I would appreciate > if > somebody of the designers around here could have a quick look at it. Im certainly no real expert, but it sounds like it would be a handy script, so worth a look into. > > I am not so deep into Alsa that I can cover severe problems brought up over > there. How would you recommend to handle this? > > THX. > > Cheers > Klaus > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel Thanks, Travis Place (wishie)