[linux-audio-user] Re: failure notice - Linux-audio-user

18 Aug 2003

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  And this,

  Atte Andr &lt;atte(a)ballbreaker.dk&gt; 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.}}}