alsa and kernel

[Steve Holmes]

By all means, make the kernel modules and install them and then deal
with ALSA drivers.  Personally after compiling the kernel several
times, I've about decided to backup the sound directory in
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel and simply untar it back in after each
recompile.  For whatever reason, on my machine 'make install' from the
alsa-driver directory causes a complete recompile of all modules every
time consuming lots of precious time.  This shortcut ot to work.

Any how, installing the alsa drivers after doing a 'make
modules_install' should keep them from being wiped out or overwritten.

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 12:35:17AM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> here's how I see it.
> personally, I think you're going about this arse about face.
> make yur kernel. with the modules,
> then after running lilo and rebooting assuming of course you've copied
> bzImage to where /vmlinuz lives on your system,
> cd /usr/src/alsa-driver-xxx where xxx is the version number,
> and first to clean up any junk do make clean.
> then ./configure
> then make
> then make install.
> after make install ias completed,
> run the snddevices script located in the alsa-driver-xxx directory by
> issuing the following.
> ./snddevices
> then, you need to edit /etc/modules.conf
> or if you're using debian,
> /etc/modutils/modules
> or create a file in /etc/modutils called alsa and provide the relevant
> information for your card.
> I can't tell you off hand how to do it now but I'm sure someone else on
> this list can.
> then run the command /etc/init.d/alsasound restart unless you're running
> slackware and then you'll need to do everything by hand
> and a bit of interesting tweeking however, I digress,
> once alsa is running with no errors, compile your libs and utils by
> first compiling the libs then the utils cause the utils depend on the
> libs etc etc.
> now once you've done all that, type alsactl store to create an
> /etc/asound.state file and then work on unmuting and setting volume and
> captue levels from there.
> hth.
> 
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