Re: alsa for laptop

[Hubert Chan <hackerhue@crosswinds.net>]

>>>>> "Yuan" == Yuan An <yuana@cs.dal.ca> writes:

    Yuan> My latptop (Dell latitude CPi DX300XT) is runing potato with kernel
    Yuan> 2.2.17.I want to make sound work.  I went to alsa homepage,
    Yuan> downloaded alsa-driver-0.4.1e.tar.gz,
    Yuan> alsa-lib-0.4.1e.tar.gz,alsa-utils-0.4.1.tar.gz,and extracted in
    Yuan> /usr/src/.I extracted kernel-source-2.2.17 in /usr/src/linux.  I went
    Yuan> into alsa-driver-0.4.1e to do following things: ./configure make make
    Yuan> install.  Here the errors: 1.syntex error failed(probably missing
    Yuan> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h I copied version.h
    Yuan> somewhere,but make got errors such as make[1]:[persist.o] Error
    Yuan> What's wrong with me?

Install the kernel-package, alsa-headers and alsa-source packages instead of
downloading the sources from the alsa page.  (It's the Debian Way.)  If you
don't already have it, get the alsa-base, alsautils, and alsaconf packages.
(Do an "apt-get install <package names>" as root.)  You may also find fakeroot
to be helpful.

Unpack the alsa sources (it gets installed in /usr/src).  *Don't* extract
kernel-source-2.2.17 into /usr/src/linux.  Put just extract in /usr/src - it
will make a kernel-source-2.2.17 subdirectory.

Read the kernel-package documentation.  There are also helpful instructions in
/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/debian/alsa-source.README.debian (after your
unpack the alsa sources).

    Yuan> 2.In alsa-utils-0.4.1 directory, ./configure gave this errors:
    Yuan> checking for libasound headers version >=0.1.1...not present.
    Yuan> configure error:Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.
    Yuan> What I'm missing?

Use Debian's pre-built alsa packages instead.

    Yuan> Any one has any suggenstion for my installation of debian?  I
    Yuan> appreciate any reply.

    Yuan> yuan

Hubert

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