From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Klaus Schulz" Subject: Re: Ubuntu - Alsa Installation Script Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:25:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200810310200.00960.wishie@wishie.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.154]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C4B2449A for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:25:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 36so427715yxh.2 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:25:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200810310200.00960.wishie@wishie.net> 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: Travis Place Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org I have some issues I am thinking of to improve the script - perhaps somebody can get me directions: 1. To avoid inconsistencies in the system I first run configure and make on the packages. If one of these fails the script exits out and the system stays as it is, because I run all make install in one function at the end. There seems to be one problem. If Alsa-revisions differ heavily. utils won't compile. The alsa-lib needs to be installed, prior to compilation of the utils - otherwise utils compilation won't succeed. Is there a way around this? 2. If I got two or more kernels on the system I don't know how to install Alsa manually on both of them 3. It seems that I have to install the (older) alsalib-dev package prior to running the script from Ubuntu repositories to get the environment properly settled. Can I avoid this? THX On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Travis Place wrote: > 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) > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel >