[linux-audio-user] Replacing Alsa driver in 2.6.8 kernel

[Christian Henz]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:57:22AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Christian,
>    Thanks, but this would seem to build Alsa CVS, but not just replace 
> an existing driver within the kernel that I'm running. (This was the 
> instruction given within a bug report on the Alsa site for the problem 
> I'm having.) Not sure how Gentoo is going to feel about this, but I'll 
> consider it. Thanks.
> 

Not just CVS, you can use any alsa-driver release. I remember 
doing this when the in-kernel ALSA was still lagging behind the standalone 
releases and it worked just fine, and it is actually much more straightforward 
than patching the kernel to use a different version of alsa. After disabling
ALSA in the kernel config, you build alsa-driver seperately, just like one
does with any driver that isn't included in the kernel.


>    This is not the same as what I found on the Alsa web site from 
> Jaroslav, which seems to say I should download CVS, then move a driver :
> 

Yes, that way you actually patch the kernel tree with a different alsa-driver
release, but the results are more or less the same, only with more effort 
(and even more effort if you just want to modify that one driver of yours).


cheers,
Christian

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