Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] not quite so simple.... mandrake 9.0 +devfs help!!
From: kevin ernste (kevinernste_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 20:41:56 EET
i think if im gonna go with tarballs,
> which is easier for me
> to understand, then ive gotta figure out some way of
> removing *all* of
> the alsa libs from mandrake.... otherwise there are
> thousands of apps
> that complain when i try to do rpm -e libalsa2 for
> example....
That's fine. Fi these are merely alsa conflicts
(which you are trying to resolve anyway) then you can
do rpm -e --force to ignore those conflicts.
>
> hmm... it might be worth me tryig the second
> option....
> in which case i'd need to update kernel and get
> latest rpms from
> mandrake cooker?... and thats all i need to do?...
> then just modprobe as usual?.... scuse obvious
> questions but i havent
> done alsa from rpms before ;-)...
There are docs for this on the Mandrake User pages.
If you do this, do "rpm -ivh, NOT rpm -Uvh which will
overwrite the old kernel. This is generally a bad
idea unless you KNOW the new kernel will work. You
also need to run lilo afterwards to make sure it sees
the new image.
I am also planning on releasing a kernel with the
preemption patches, but it uses 2.4.19, and the rc2
alsa stuff. If you would like, I could send that
along instead of the cooker.
>
> are you running your mandrake builds for ECMC from
> rpms or tarballs?...
Neither. I am using the default modules that came
with Mandrake 9. The Turn-key package merely installs
the libs-devel and utils for ALSA, the modules are
already there and require only a modification of
modules.conf. I just posted a new ALSA help page on
my site, linked from the insallation instructions.
You can go there to see my process.
> im in the process of downloading your turnkey audio,
> it looks really
> good and i'd like to run it as its built for mdk 9.0
> - its probably a
> good idea if i work on the same system as yours....
Well, I think it is a pretty good system, and it works
for me. Once you get the ALSA stuff going, the rest
should be a snap.
Kevin
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