Re: Wanting to packge ultrasound drivers.
Chris McKillop <cdmckill@warg.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Is anyone maintaining the ultrasound project's Gravis Ultrasound
> device driver package? The ultra-mod package in Hamm is built for an
> older kernel and won't load on my Hamm system and there have been many
> new releases of the driver since the last package has been made. It
> doesn't appear that a newer one is in slink either. I am not currently
> a package maintainer for anything else (just moved from RH to
> Debian actually, and I am really enjoying both the documentation and
> the structure of things) but I would be willing to take on this if the
> current maintainer isn't going to anymore. What is the formal process
> to do this? Contact the old maintainer and wait a period of time?
I'm the maintainer (at least until now :-) You can easily build a module for your kernel directly from the source of the Debian package. Just download and unpack it and run a dpkg-buildpackage (make sure you have the kernel headers for your current kernel version installed).
I know the package is a couple of minor versions behind, but I didn't see the need for upgrading it since the Linux Ultrasound Project has been superseeded by the new ALSA Project (check http://alsa.jcu.cz/). There are packages for that in slink maintained by Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>.
Best regards,
M. S.
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Martin A. Soto J. Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes masoto@uniandes.edu.co
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