On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 17:19, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 26.09.2004 schrieb W. Guy Thomas um 23:51: > > > I know I need to compile and install and load. That is what I'm > > attempting to do. But according to the ALSA site, I have three modules: > > drivers, lib and utils. Apparently there is something else I am missing. > > The drivers compile as do the libs, but the utils do not. > > No, modules means in this discussion kernel "elements". You may treat > the things modular when speaking about ALSA havin drivers, libs and > utils. But modules in this discussion means " hardware drivers", and > only this part. These modules are located under /lib/modules/`uname > -r`/. > Believe it or not, I do understand this. I am trying to get back up to speed on my terminology, and I appreciate your help. > > I have been looking for rpm's and source on many sites to see if > > perhapes there is a lower level alsa kernel module that I am missing. > > fedora.us is one source for FC1 RPMs: simply use the fedora.us > repository with yum or up2date and a simple ALSA installation is > provided. > this is the first I have seen a complete listing all in one place, thank you for the tip on achieving this. > [ ] alsa-driver-1.0.4-0.fdr.2.1.i386.rpm > 05-May-2004 07:31 209k > [ ] alsa-firmware-1.0.4-0.fdr.1.1.i386.rpm 08-Apr-2004 11:10 915k > [ ] alsa-lib-1.0.4-0.fdr.1.1.i386.rpm 08-Apr-2004 09:00 304k > [ ] alsa-lib-devel-1.0.4-0.fdr.1.1.i386.rpm 08-Apr-2004 09:00 785k > [ ] alsa-oss-1.0.4-0.fdr.1.1.i386.rpm 08-Apr-2004 09:05 32k > [ ] alsa-tools-1.0.4-0.fdr.1.1.i386.rpm 08-Apr-2004 11:10 300k > [ ] alsa-tools-firmware-1.0.4-0.fdr.1.1.i386.rpm 08-Apr-2004 11:10 26k > [ ] alsa-utils-1.0.4-0.fdr.1.1.i386.rpm > [ ] kernel-module-alsa-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl-1.0.4-0.fdr.2.1.i386.rpm 16-Aug-2004 01:07 1.2M > > An alternate can be freshrpms.net which has the RPMs for FC1 too. > yes, good place. discovered that yesterday. thanks. > > If anyone has ALSA experience please let me know. I thought this was > > going to be so simple. It's just sound drivers! LOL. > > It is very simple indeed ;) > I know it should be. I am having to shed about 20 years of Windows experience and jump back to where I was 6 years ago when I was at least fairly well versed in Linux. It's been a while and I do appreciate your patience with my lack of detailed experience. > > =G > > Alexander Thanks Alexander, -- =Guy Fedora Core 1, kernel 2.4.22.2199, yarrow
