Was the patching described by Eric Hathaway's post done for the new version, or was it decided it wasn't really necessary? See: [Alsa-devel] aureal driver compile problem and patch The patch is copied below for your convenience.
I would also like to suggest that the INSTALL file and read me files have specific references to the pages at: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaDrivers In my case the ones for Aureal (http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=au88x0 and links from there) were invaluable. I would also like to sugget the addition of a NewToLinuxReadThis file with a quick overview that will get newbies who have just installed a distro and can't get their soundcard to work up and running in the easiest possible way. Maybe including the reference to the http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaDrivers will do. Some other mods that would be good for Newbies is if alsamixergui is package independent and had an obvious Save Settings button that initiated a script that did away with the need to directly use alsactl and to modify the modules.conf file. It could also pop up a reference to the http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaDrivers page on starting. I would also like to suggest a gui for the install process with scripting that did the detection of card, whether kernel-source is installed, whether sound is loaded, whether oss is needed, whether tools are needed (based on soundcard), doing ./snddevices, checking for/getting, installing and setting unmuting/volumes for alsamixergui - the whole process should be able to be made a lot easier for people who just got a distro off the front cover of a computer mag. For these people ease of installation and use of sound and surfing (the winmodem problem) are likely to be a big deal right at the start. cheers Paul --------------- BEGIN PATCH ----------------------- diff -ur alsa-driver-0.9.8/acore/Makefile alsa-driver-0.9.8-patched/acore/Makefile --- alsa-driver-0.9.8/acore/Makefile Tue Sep 16 06:14:03 2003 +++ alsa-driver-0.9.8-patched/acore/Makefile Tue Oct 21 22:21:12 2003 @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SND_SERIALMIDI) += snd-rawmidi.o snd.o obj-$(CONFIG_SND_MSND_PINNACLE) += snd-pcm.o snd-timer.o snd-page-alloc.o snd.o snd-rawmidi.o obj-$(CONFIG_SND_USB_US428) += snd-pcm.o snd-timer.o snd-page-alloc.o snd.o snd-rawmidi.o snd-hwdep.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8810) += snd-pcm.o snd-timer.o snd-page-alloc.o snd.o snd-rawmidi.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8820) += snd-pcm.o snd-timer.o snd-page-alloc.o snd.o snd-rawmidi.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8830) += snd-pcm.o snd-timer.o snd-page-alloc.o snd.o snd-rawmidi.o export-objs := sound.o pcm.o pcm_lib.o rawmidi.o timer.o hwdep.o memalloc.o diff -ur alsa-driver-0.9.8/acore/seq/Makefile alsa-driver-0.9.8-patched/acore/seq/Makefile --- alsa-driver-0.9.8/acore/seq/Makefile Mon Jun 2 09:03:38 2003 +++ alsa-driver-0.9.8-patched/acore/seq/Makefile Tue Oct 21 22:21:20 2003@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SND_SERIALMIDI) += snd-seq-midi.o snd-seq.o snd-seq-device.o snd-seq-midi-event.o obj-$(CONFIG_SND_MSND_PINNACLE) += snd-seq-midi.o snd-seq.o snd-seq-device.o snd-seq-midi-event.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8810) += snd-seq-midi.o snd-seq.o snd-seq-device.o snd-seq-midi-event.o snd-seq-instr.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8820) += snd-seq-midi.o snd-seq.o snd-seq-device.o snd-seq-midi-event.o snd-seq-instr.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8830) += snd-seq-midi.o snd-seq.o snd-seq-device.o snd-seq-midi-event.o snd-seq-instr.o export-objs := seq_device.o seq.o seq_instr.o seq_midi_emul.o \ seq_midi_event.o seq_virmidi.o diff -ur alsa-driver-0.9.8/drivers/mpu401/Makefile alsa-driver-0.9.8-patched/drivers/mpu401/Makefile --- alsa-driver-0.9.8/drivers/mpu401/Makefile Mon Jun 2 09:03:39 2003 +++ alsa-driver-0.9.8-patched/drivers/mpu401/Makefile Tue Oct 21 22:21:36 2003@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/toplevel.config include $(TOPDIR)/Makefile.conf +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8810) += snd-mpu401-uart.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8820) += snd-mpu401-uart.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8830) += snd-mpu401-uart.o + export-objs := mpu401_uart.o TOPDIR = $(MAINSRCDIR) diff -ur alsa-driver-0.9.8/pci/ac97/Makefile alsa-driver-0.9.8-patched/pci/ac97/Makefile --- alsa-driver-0.9.8/pci/ac97/Makefile Sun Feb 9 13:35:57 2003 +++ alsa-driver-0.9.8-patched/pci/ac97/Makefile Tue Oct 21 22:21:49 2003 @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/toplevel.config include $(TOPDIR)/Makefile.conf +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8810) += snd-ac97-codec.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8820) += snd-ac97-codec.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SND_AU8830) += snd-ac97-codec.o + export-objs := ac97_codec.o ak4531_codec.o TOPDIR = $(MAINSRCDIR) --------------- END PATCH ----------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Takashi Iwai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:46 AM Subject: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] ALSA 1.0.0pre1 is released > Hi all, > > as you might have already seen on the web news page, we released > 1.0.0pre1 tarball. This is intended for the wide tests before the > official 1.0.0 release. We planned to release 1.0.0 (hopefully) in > this month, so please everyone test this version and give bug reports > now. > > Especially, if you have a card or a mobo with ICH (or compatible) > chip and *multiple* AC97 codecs, testing this version is appreciated. > Please give (also positive) feedback whether it works. The handling > of multiple codecs was changed recently, but not tested well because > of lack of hardware. > > > Important changes / fixes since 0.9.8 > > - joystick is configured now (again) by module options instead of > control API. see alsa-kernel/Documentation/Joystick.txt. > > - the default value of cards_limit option of sound module is 1. > note that this doesn't mean that the max. number of cards is limited > to 1, but it restricts the number of auto-loaded cards. if you load > a module manually, it's added safely. > > - PCM OSS emulation was fixed, e.g. mplayer delay problem should be > fixed now. Hopefully this doesn't introduce another bug... > > - AC97 handler is rewritten. please test! > > - some serious ISA PnP bugs are fixed (e.g. cs4236 freeze). > > - some bugs in OSS-emulation library are fixed. please test! > > - dmix problems with xmms ALSA plugin is solved. > > - alsa-driver tree can be built with 2.6 kernel. > > - alsaconf is now moved to alsa-utils tarball. > > > Known problems > > - pdplus driver seems broken. more testers? > > - korg1212 driver seems broken (somehow). > > - PCM OSS emulation might cause oops when you compile the kernel > without frame pointer (depending on the compiler). > > - opti92x still might not work (although some bugs were fixed). > > > -- > Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > help you create better code? 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