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From: "Matthew R. Lee" <gentoo@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:52:51
Message-Id: 200610112246.47838.gentoo@matthewlee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype by Richard Fish
1 On Wednesday 11 October 2006 22:19, Richard Fish wrote:
2 > On 10/11/06, Matthew R. Lee <gentoo@××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 > > The arecord apeared to work, but when I played it back with aplay -
4 > > silence!
5 >
6 > At this point you may want to try the patch that you found on the
7 > forums. Unfortunately it doesn't apply cleanly against 1.0.13, and
8 > the original patch author didn't release it under any defined
9 > licensing terms, so it isn't legal for me to update it for 1.0.13 and
10 > publish it. So you will either have to downgrade to 1.0.11 and use
11 > his patch as-is, or pester him for an update to .13, or even better
12 > re-publish his patch under the GPL like the rest of alsa.
13 >
14 > If you want to use the patch as-is, copy and save it to a file, such
15 > as conexant.patch. Then download alsa-driver-1.0.11.tar.bz2 from [1],
16 >
17 > and put it in the same directory as the patch. Then run (as root):
18 > > tar -xjf alsa-driver-1.0.11.tar.bz2
19 > > cd alsa-driver-1.0.11
20 > > patch -p1 --ignore-whitespace < ../conexant.patch
21 >
22 > patching file alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_patch.h
23 > patching file alsa-kernel/pci/hda/Makefile
24 > patching file alsa-kernel/pci/hda/patch_conexant.c
25 > patching file pci/hda/patch_conexant.c
26 >
27 > > ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
28 >
29 > [configure output omitted]
30 >
31 > > make && make install && /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
32 >
33 > [make output omitted]
34 >
35 > This should work, but if you have problems (like crashes, devices not
36 > being found, etc), you might need to downgrade alsa-lib, alsa-plugins,
37 > alsa-firmware, alsa-headers, alsa-tools, and alsa-utils to version
38 > 1.0.11 as well with /etc/portage/package.mask.
39 >
40 > HTH,
41 > -Richard
42 >
43 > [1] ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/
44 Thanks for the help & info. I'm in the UK at the moment and it's getting
45 late. I'll try it in the morning
46 Thanks
47 Matt
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[gentoo-user] Re: Intel HDA soundcard, microphones and skype Moshe Kamensky <samvimes@××××××××.fm>