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From: Kevin <gentoo-dev@××××××.biz>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ALSA and kernel 2.6.1-gentoo-r1 and /etc/init.d/alsasound
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:57:30
Message-Id: 200402171857.28007.gentoo-dev@gnosys.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ALSA and kernel 2.6.1-gentoo-r1 and /etc/init.d/alsasound by Jeremy Huddleston
1 On Tuesday 17 February 2004 15:44, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
2 > Follow my device since I'm the developer ;)
3 >
4 > I'm not on gentoo-users, so please feel free to forward my response
5 > there as well.
6 >
7 > media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.2c should work with your 2.6.x kernel. The
8 > results of emerging this package would give you the same configuration
9 > as configuging alsa to be built as modules in the kernel's 'make
10 > config' (aside from version differences). The ones in 2.6.x are KNOWN
11 > to work correct, and the alsa-driver ones SHOULD work correct
12 > (according to alsa, they DO work, but I don't take their word for it).
13 >
14 > So the prefered method for alsa usage if you want to help test things
15 > is:
16 > alsa-driver-1.0.2c
17 > alsa-lib-1.0.2
18 > alsa-utils-1.0.2
19 > alsa-oss-1.0.2
20 > alsa-tools-1.0.2
21 >
22
23 Um... should this be a bug report or...
24
25 I can emerge alsa-lib, -utils, -oss, -tools (1.0.2) just fine with:
26
27 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge alsa-*
28
29 but cannot do so for alsa-driver (1.0.2c).
30
31 When I try, the emerge process announces:
32
33 * This does not work with kernel 2.6 !!!
34
35 and then fails with:
36 !!! ERROR: media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.2c failed.
37
38 Apparently a known bug, but unless I misunderstood, you just said the
39 preferred method was...
40
41 Pls advise...
42
43 Thx.
44
45 -Kevin
46
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