Re: [tlug] Reinstalling ALSA from source? Anybody tried?

[Edward Wright <edw@example.com>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:41:05PM +0900, scott wrote:
> 
>  I've just installed Centos5.1 on a Toshiba M500 laptop, but I'm having
> some problems with alsa. 
> 
>  I'm thinking if I roll back alsa to a previous version maybe it will
> solve this problem. Of course, yum remove alsa will remove KDE and the
> whole kitchen sink as well, so instead what I am thinking of doing is:
> 
>   rpm -e --nodeps alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5
>   rpm -e --nodeps alsa-utils-1.0.14-2.rc4.el5
> 
> and then installing alsa from source. However from what I've read online
> this is a pretty tough procedure, as alsa is referenced in the kernel,
> etc.

Can't help with your specific problem, but I think it might be a good
idea to poke around the alsa site
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page
and have a read thru the alsa mailing list archives before digging in. It
may have nothing to do with the version.

If you do roll back the libs, etc, you will want to make sure that
the version matches the version in your kernel, or vice versa.

I have installed alsa from scratch, but it was a couple years ago
and memory fades..... However, at that time I rebuilt the kernel
with the version of alsa I wanted to install. Don't remember any
major problems...

Ed