From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory T Flynn Subject: Re: no soundcards detected on MCP51 rev a Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:16:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f51.google.com (mail-vw0-f51.google.com [209.85.212.51]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA632103838 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:24:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by vws15 with SMTP id 15so3631vws.38 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:24:17 -0700 (PDT) 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: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Well here is the problem with downgrading kernels, i just tried booting the Arch LTS kernel package which is 2.6.27 and i have an EXT4 root partition, therefor that kernel can't boot. Is there any good way to get an ALSA build prior to 1.0.20 to compile against kernel 2.6.33? On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:19:20 -0400, > Gregory T Flynn wrote: >> >> after 9.04 it doesn't work, and versions of ALSA prior to 1.0.20 won't >> compile against the newer kernels since the source tree organization >> has changed > > The other-way round: you can run the old kernel that old Ubuntu was > based on, and compile the later alsa-driver on it. > > > Takashi > >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> > At Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:44:13 -0400, >> > Gregory T Flynn wrote: >> >> >> >> the options in the laptop's BIOS are rather sparse and nothing about >> >> Sound card enable/disable >> >> >> >> The soundcard works in Windows 7 and Ubuntu 8.04/8.10/9.04 Live USB i= mages >> > >> > Then try the version of alsa-driver of Ubuntu. =A0Check whether it >> > really works. =A0If works, then please bisect. >> > >> > >> > thanks, >> > >> > Takashi >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> - Greg Flynn >> > -- = - Greg Flynn