Slackware upgrade woes

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Many thanks for this. I will give it a shot.


On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Adam Myrow wrote:

> Try removing the alsa-driver package, grabbing the source code, and 
> re-building from source.  It's rather poorly explained, but the Alsa modules 
> seem to depend on what else was compiled into the kernel, and thus, seem to 
> be specific to the kernel for which they installed.  In plain English, I've 
> had to re-compile, not just reinstall the Alsa drivers every time I build a 
> new kernel.  2.6.X kernels have Alsa built in, but I still prefer to leave it 
> out and compile Alsa separately because the 2.6.X Alsa drivers are often 
> older versions than what you can get stand-alone.
>
> Here is how to rebuild ALSA from source.  You could do it manually, but this 
> method basically re-builds the Alsa-driver package based on your current 
> kernel.  Assuming you have a full Slackware set, insert disk 4 and change to 
> the "src/l" directory.  Do a "cp -R" on the "alsa-driver" directory to put it 
> on your hard drive.  Now, cd into the newly-created directory and give the 
> "alsa-driver.SlackBuild" file execute permissions. Then, run that as root. 
> This will compile Alsa-driver, and stuff the output into a package in /tmp. 
> When it completes, you can do a "tar tzf" on the .tgz file to make sure 
> everything is in it.  In particular, make sure the modules are in place. 
> Once the package has been created in /tmp, remove any existing alsa-driver 
> package, and install the one in /tmp.  It will contain modules based on your 
> current kernel, and will hopefully behave itself.  If you switch to kernel 
> 2.6, you will have to modify the script.  It hard-codes the kernel version 
> and also assumes that modules end in .o.  If you wish to upgrade to a later 
> version of Alsa when it comes out, I'd just say to build from source and 
> remove the Slackware package.  Just be sure to copy the rc.alsa script from 
> /etc/rc.d before you remove the Alsa package, so it can be put back in place. 
> It takes care of loading the modules, and runs alsactl to restore your mixer 
> settings.
>
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