recommended Alsa version for an AWE64?

Charles Hallenbeck hallenbeck at valstar.net
Thu Oct 17 21:17:40 EDT 2002


Hi Igor/Adam,

I left isapnp support out of my kernel when compiling it, and
configured the alsa-drivers using --without-isapnp and
--with-oss.

But my sound card is a PCI device, sblive.

Not sure what else I did this time that made it work okay.


On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Oh one other thing. What did you include as configure cmdline?
>
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> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Adam. Did you try rc3? Or any of the 'rc' versions? Also, what modules
> > > did you have loaded Did you have snd-mixer-oss loaded (if using rc3)?
> >
> > I tried RC3 and it never would compile.  I still have the errors from
> > attempts to compile it.  If possible, I'd rather use a later version as I
> > figure that it'll hopefully be less buggy.  Anyhow, here is a sample of
> > the errors I was getting when trying to build the driver.
> >
> > About halfway down:
> >
> > pdplus.c:3032: warning: #warning "This driver need to be ported to new hw_info"
> > pdplus.c:3082: warning: #warning "This driver need to be ported to new hw_info"
> > pdplus.c:3107: warning: #warning "This driver need to be ported to new hw_info"
> > pdplus.c:3136: warning: #warning "The S/PDIF setup code needs to be rewritten."
> > pdplus.c:3212: warning: #warning "This driver need to be ported to new hw_info"
> >
> > Some time later:
> >
> >                  from /usr/src/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc3/include/sound/driver.h:43,
> >                  from ../alsa-kernel/core/hwdep.c:22,
> >                  from hwdep.c:1:
> > /usr/src/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc3/include/linux/isapnp.h:334: warning: `struct
> > isapnp_card_id' declared inside parameter list
> > /usr/src/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc3/include/linux/isapnp.h:334: warning: its
> > scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what
> > you want.
> >
> > This last error repeats over and over and finally, the build would bomb
> > out with:
> >
> > sound.c:41: `snd_hack_usb_set_interface' undeclared here (not in a
> > function)
> > sound.c:41: initializer element is not constant
> > sound.c:41: (near initialization for
> > `__ksymtab_snd_hack_usb_set_interface.value')
> > make[1]: *** [sound.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc3/acore'
> > make: *** [compile] Error 1
> >
> > Looking at this more closely, it may be choking on the fact that I don't
> > have USB on this machine and thus don't include USB support in my kernel.
> > any ideas?
> >
> >
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