Re: alsa driver

[Sean <snmjohnson@iclub.org>]

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The potato alsa packages are very out of date. I would recommend downloading 
the source tarballs and using ALSA that way. 

Sean

On Wednesday 28 March 2001 11:33, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> Hi
>
> I don't know how to install alsa drivers on my potato machine with the
> 2.4.2 kernel.
> I downloaded from the potato server the following packages and I
> succesfully installed them
>
> alsa-base_0.4.1i-5.deb
> alsa-headers_0.4.1i-5.deb
> alsa-source_0.4.1i-5.deb
> alsaconf_0.4.2-3.deb
> alsaplayer-alsa_0.99.26-2.1.deb
> alsaplayer-esd_0.99.26-2.1.deb
> alsaplayer-oss_0.99.26-2.1.deb
> alsaplayer_0.99.26-2.1.deb
> alsautils_0.4.1-5.deb
> asmixer_0.5-4.deb
> aumix_2-1.deb
>
> I also downloaded alsa-driver-0.4.tar.gz but when I try to compile this
> I get this:
>
> gcc   -DALSA_BUILD -O2 -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2
> -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -DLINUX -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/src/linux/include -I.. -c -o memory.o
> memory.c
> memory.c: In function `snd_malloc_pages_R838db77d':
> memory.c:45: warning: implicit declaration of function `MAP_NR'
> gcc   -DALSA_BUILD -O2 -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2
> -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -DLINUX -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/src/linux/include -I.. -c -o info.o
> info.c
> ...
> info.c:685: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> info.c:691: warning: excess elements in struct initializer
> info.c:691: warning: (near initialization for
> `snd_info_card_link_inode_operations')
> info.c: In function `snd_info_card_register':
> info.c:784: structure has no member named `ops'
> info.c: In function `snd_info_create_device_R3271fcb6':
> info.c:954: structure has no member named `ops'
> info.c: In function `snd_info_register_R5d82e39c':
> info.c:1057: structure has no member named `ops'
> make[1]: *** [info.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver-0.4/kernel'
> make: *** [compile] Error 1
> /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver-0.4#
> ...
> When I try to start the TkAlsaMixer (from the ALSA homepage) I get this:
>
> "Original error: The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system."
>
> What do I miss ??
>
> TIA!
> Philipp

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