From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261799AbUBDNfG (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 08:35:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261812AbUBDNfF (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 08:35:05 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:31379 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261799AbUBDNfA (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 08:35:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:32:38 +0100 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: joshk@triplehelix.org (Joshua Kwan) Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: ALSA in 2.6 -- no snd-au8830? In-Reply-To: <20040204050352.GD4394@triplehelix.org> References: <20040204035336.GC4394@triplehelix.org> <20040204050352.GD4394@triplehelix.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 13) (Rational FORTRAN) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:03:52 -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote: > > [1 ] > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:53:36PM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote: > > $SUBJECT. The driver seems to be present in alsa-driver but not the > > in-kernel version. Is it very new? Does it need to be converted? Is it > > deprecated in 2.6 in favor of a better driver? May I help out? > > Let me eat my words. Here is what I did to get it working (at least for > au8830): > > 1. Check out alsa-driver from CVS. > 2. cp -r alsa-driver/pci/au88x0 /usr/src/linux/sound/pci > 3. edit Kconfig to add SND_AU8830 entry > 4. edit Makefile to add au88x0/ subdir for obj-$(CONFIG_SND) > 5. edit au88x0/Makefile to remove 2.4 build cruft > > And it works! :) I can submit a diff if desired. you can build alsa-driver tree externally for 2.6 kernels, too. just run configure, make and make install as usual. -- Takashi Iwai ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org