2.6 Kernels and ALSA

[Kenny Hitt]

Probably.  My Debian box uses the Debian alsa packages and they keep
everything in sync.  The Gentoo system seems to do the same thing.

          Kenny

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 06:30:16AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Well, I'm glad to hear that.  I recalled that was a problem in the
> past with the 2.6 kernels.  Now, Do I have to sync up my libraries and
> utilits for ALSA with the current driver version like we had to do in
> the past?
> 
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 06:42:03AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > Hi.  The alsa version in 2.6 kernels doesn't seem to lag behind any
> > more.  I'm running 2.6.5 with the kernel alsa modules.  When I cat
> > /proc/asound/version I get
> > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4rc2 (Tue Mar 30
> > 08:19:30 2004 UTC).
> > 
> > When I build a 2.6.3 kernel, I noticed the alsa support in it was also
> > current.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> >           Kenny
> > 
> > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 02:19:31PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > I know that ALSA has been included permenantly with the 2.6 kernels
> > > but sometimes the version lags behind slightly, the latest ALSA
> > > version on the street.  What are the effects of these different
> > > versions? How does one tell what version of ALSA is actually in a
> > > given kernel source tree? I looked all around the source and cannot
> > > find an ALSA version any place.  Do I have to downgrade my ALSA libs
> > > and utils to match this kernel version?  Currently, I have
> > > alsa-drivers-1.0.3 for my 2.4 kernel.  Every time I change ALSA
> > > versions, I invaritabally have to go and redo all my alsa mixer
> > > settings to match things up again.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any help you can offer.
> > > 
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