Expanding towards ALSA

[Matthias Saou]

Karl DeBisschop wrote :

> >     The only missing tool (and maybe it's not come to Fedora yet) is
> > AlsaConf.  I have:
> > 
> > alsa-driver-0.9.8-4.fr
> > alsa-lib-0.9.8-2.fr
> > alsa-utils-0.9.8-1.fr
> > gnome-alsamixer-0.9.6-2.fr
> > kernel-module-alsa-0.9.8-4.fr_2.4.22_1.2115.nptl
> > 
> >     For some reason, Alsa-tools can't be found, and that's probably
> > where alsaconf is hiding...
> 
> Seems like there's a little bit of a packaging error (which I have not
> fully tracked down yet). But I did have the same problem. Except I had
> rebuilt the SRPMS and did:
> 
> $ locate alsaconf
> /home/kdebisschop/rpm/BUILD/alsa-driver-0.9.8/utils/alsaconf
> /home/kdebisschop/rpm/BUILD/alsa-driver-0.9.8/utils/alsaconf.8
> 
> So I ran that, and it mostly worked. I did lose a few other alias lines
> in modules.conf which I had to replace from the old file. But it got me
> running.

Believe it or not, I had never heard of alsaconf before! :-) My guess would
be because it isn't installed by default with "make install"...
I'll check it out and eventually include it in further alsa-driver
packages.

In the meantime, there are instructions and links on how to configure
modules.conf here : http://freshrpms.net/docs/alsa/

Matthias

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