On 3/4/07, Nigel Sollars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is a first post from me so hello to all, > > 1st > > I have compiled in the kernel modules this time around, the sound card in > question uses the snd-intel-hd driver. Everything works perfectly except > the external microphone, I have been a longtime user of Alsa and was quite > surprised to see very few volume controls in alsamixer. >
ALSA just exposes the hardware capabilities. Probably you are surprised because these days hardware vendors try to make the hardware as simple (read: cheap) as possible by pushing hardware functionality into the (Windows) driver. > 2nd > > I normally prefer to build the kernel modules myself using the latest > release tarballs but for some reason under 2.6.x the driver fails to build. > I have copied my 2.6.x include/linux and asm dirs to my /usr/include dir so > that we are matching the running kernel release ( was required for the build > of Xorg and Slackware only provides 2.4 includes ). > A much cleaner solution would be to pass the --with-kernel option to ALSA's ./configure scripts. Anyway you don't say how it fails to build so I can't help any more. Care to provide the exact error messages? Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
