recomended Alsa version for an AWE64?

[Toby Fisher]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:

> Well, hearing how once people get it working, everybody seems to be quite
> pleased with Alsa, I've been trying to get it to compile.  I am using
> Slackware Linux with kernel 2.4.19 and trying to build Alsa 0.9.0-RC3.
> The drivers aren't compiling and giving a string of errors having to do
> with conflicting definitions and such.  I am trying to use a Soundblaster
> AWE64.  I know that this card has been around for awhile so I was thinking
> that maybe an older version would be more likely to build.  Is there a
> particular version that is known to work well with this card?  Otherwise,
> I can provide the rather long list of warnings and errors I am getting and
> go from there.  I'm doing this so I can use full duplex with Speak Freely.
> I had found a hack to sort of get full duplex to work with the kernel
> drivers, but it would generate a lot of record overrun errors and lengthy
> pauses.  Any ideas welcome.

Hmmm, I downgraded to 0.9.0b12, find it very stable, though I'm only using
kernel 2.4.5, Slackware 8.0, but that would be my suggestion.  Make sure
you compile the drivers first, then the libs, then the utils.

HTH

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