On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:25:29 -0800 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 16:26, Collins Richey wrote: > > I'm not quite sure what you are driving at. There is no "building > > alsa on the side" with the 2.6 kernels. That is done as a part of > > the kernel configuration and compile. > > > > Maybe you know something I don't? > > If I do it's the first time Collins... ;-) > > Actually, I do know a bit that's related anyway. Just because a piece > of code is included in the kernel doesn't mean that it is only updated > with the release of the kernel. The 1394 stack has been included with > the kernel for a couple of years now, but I change that one all the > time on my own. In that case I just take the drivers/ieee1394 > directory and blow it away, and then replace it with the ieee1394 > directory I get from doing a CVS download of the latest 1394 code. > Painless, and it works because the 1394 code all resides in one > directory. It's easy. > > So, when Alsa does an update, and you can get it from CVS, then you > need to insert it into the kernel tree you are running and recompile > the kernel. Technically it's no different, but unfortunately, it's > more difficult. The placement of all of this code is still a mystery, > partially because it is spread around, and partially because there are > other, older OSS things still in there to confuse us. > > So, I want to bring down the Alsa code and build it in. It shoudl > work. > > Another thread today on a different audio list stated that the user > did a kernel build, but chose to not use any of the Alsa that was in > the kernel. (make menuconfig and just unselect everything except > sound.) > > Then he did > > ./configure > make > make install > > on the Alsa CVS code and he got new Alsa with a 2.6.2 kernel. > > My question is how to handle the other parts of Alsa, like OSS? > You definitely know more than I do, and I have no answers for this. I'm just glad that my measly sound card is supported <g>. -- Collins - Denver Area - Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
