Re: [Alsa-user] First post

2011-06-21 Thread David Henderson
evel mailing > list for guidance. Although I'm not on that list. alsa-project.org > should have info on that one. > > - James > > > On 6/21/11, David Henderson wrote: >> Hi James, if I use "configure --prefix=/opt/staging/alsa" then I'll have >> t

Re: [Alsa-user] First post

2011-06-21 Thread David Henderson
s already there, not re-invent it in your > image. And yes a bit OT at this point. > > - James > > > On 6/20/11, David Henderson wrote: >> I think your statement here " >> >> i.e. how exactly would you create your tarball? From a diff of an >> entire bac

Re: [Alsa-user] First post

2011-06-20 Thread David Henderson
y hell I guess, of sorts. > > Lots of little things that will keep you from succeeding. It's > probably time better spent learning an existing package management > system IMO. Than to create your own. Especially if you're on your > own and not part of team. But it'

Re: [Alsa-user] First post

2011-06-20 Thread David Henderson
On 06/20/2011 11:52 AM, Pierre Lorenzon wrote: > Hi, > > > > From: David Henderson > Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] First post > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:28:48 -0400 > >> Thanks for the reply Pierre. I checked into the blfs book, but >> it merely says "thes

Re: [Alsa-user] First post

2011-06-20 Thread David Henderson
wheel as previously said. But > sometimes your distro doesn't package things in a way that you want to > use them. i.e. Timidity with sequencer support. Jackd with sequencer > support. Alsa with OSS emulation. And other fine tuning type needs. > Or your distro is on such

Re: [Alsa-user] First post

2011-06-20 Thread David Henderson
ess you have a lot of time to waste, or just need the learning, >>> I'd recommend going with existing distros. There's enough of them >>> that one might suit your current needs. www.distrowatch.com >> I suggested something intermediary : lfs or gentoo wh

Re: [Alsa-user] First post

2011-06-20 Thread David Henderson
th like software requires the > --with-sequencer=yes if your card doesn't have native midi abilities > (most don't these days). And various pulse-audio and browsers and > other things that just need --with-oss=yes or things might not work as > expected, if at all. Little thin

Re: [Alsa-user] First post

2011-06-19 Thread David Henderson
unless you have a lot of time to waste, or just need the learning, > I'd recommend going with existing distros. There's enough of them > that one might suit your current needs. www.distrowatch.com > > HTH, > - James > > > > On 6/19/11, David Henderson wrote: >

Re: [Alsa-user] First post

2011-06-19 Thread David Henderson
06/19/2011 11:22 PM, Pierre Lorenzon wrote: > Hi, > > It looks like to me such questions are well answered in the > blfs book. I personnaly think that the latter is a very good > tool to build his own custom distro. > > Bests > > Pierre > > > From: David Henderson

[Alsa-user] First post

2011-06-19 Thread David Henderson
Hi everyone! I'm currently expanding my knowledge of GNU/Linux to include building packages from scratch towards an overall goal of a custom distro. So far, I have a nice base for a command line OS, but want to expand into the multimedia aspect. Alsa was my first (only?) choice for the audio