On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 21:52:39 +0200
Kees Bakker
Hi,
I'm new to SuSE, but not to Linux, and I know how to build my own kernels. That's not the issue.
I want to replace the ALSA in kernel-source-2.4.20.SuSE and build my own k_athlon.rpm. The src.rpm contains patches.common.tar.bz2 which includes an old version of ALSA. And I need a newer version to get support for the via8235 chipset, and I want to try out 0.9.4.
Does anyone know how this alsa patch was created? Notice that it is not the same as the alsa-driver package. Somehow it is derived from that. But how was that done?
I'm not sure about this, but I've been compiling my kernels, and putting in the newest alsa. All you have to do is compile your kernel, and include sound as "module". Then make a symlink to your kernel source directory called "linux", so alsa can find it. After you compile and install the kernel, you do the alsa stuff. Get the latest alsa-driver-0.94 and unpack it in /usr/src/alsa. Then just run configure,make,make install and it will find your kernel sources, make all the alsa modules, and install them into the proper /lib/modules directory for the kernel. It's almost automatic, it's so easy. The patch you are talking about may be for something else pertaining to some aspect of alsa, there are patches galore out there now. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation