30 Jul
2004
30 Jul
'04
6:07 p.m.
Mark Knecht schrieb:
Hi,
I wonder if anyone has a pointer to any web instructions on how to
replace an Alsa driver that has gotten broken in a new kernel release.
My ATIIXP sound chip has worked fine for months but suddenly it's
broken in a number of 2.6.7 kernels as well as 2.6.8-rc2. It appears
that a broken driver was released without testing, if I understand the
Alsa Bug Tracker correctly. Now there are comments about replacing the
driver in the kernel with the driver from CVS. I don't know how to do
this.
This is how I replace the alsa stuff in the kernel source:
1. checkout the "alsa-kernel" module from the alsa-project cvs. Go to
http://alsa-project.org/download.php for instructions.
2. cd into the kernel tld
3. move the sound/oss dir to some safe location
4. remove the "sound" directory
5. copy the checked out "alsa-kernel" dir into the kernel tld and rename
it "sound"
6. remove "sound/oss" directory
7. move the "oss" dir from step 3 back into the "sound" dir
8. remove include/sound
9. move sound/include dir into the include dir.
10. unless I missed something you can now build and install kernel as usual.
hth