[linux-audio-user] Re: failure notice

[Rick Taylor]

> And this,
> 
>  Atte Andr <atte at ballbreaker.dk> wrote:
>  
>  > I just installed debian/unstable on my new laptop and am eager to get ALSA running.
>  > But it seems that the ALSA modules in unstable are for kernel 2.4.20, which is not
>  > in unstable. The closest is 2.4.21. What to do? Would ALSA work with the modules for
>  > kernel 2.4.20 running on 2.4.21? If not, is the only solution to install ALSA from
>  > source?
>  
>   If you select the alsa modules first dselect will autoselect the kernel bits you need
>   There's only the 5, 9beta and 10 stuff no? {I've not used unstable recently.} If you 
>   select 10 or whatever it will tell you what kernel source package, headers, kernel,
>   etc it requires. If you select the source package it will grab all the components
>   and set everything up. If you get the sndconfig package you can do the rest of it
>   with that. 
>  
>   {tho' I have had to get the package from alsa and compile it a few times. {Even
>   Debian's not perfect {mentions that somewhere in their documentation.}}}
>