On Thursday 01 Jan 1970 12:59 am, you wrote: > andrew cooke hat gesagt: // andrew cooke wrote: > > I had compiled alsa from source because I'm using my own patched (2.14.14 > > with preemptive and ext3) kernel and so presumed that I needed to > > recompile rather than load a .deb, but I really don't understand the > > relationship between alsa and the kernel - maybe I can just use a .deb. > > I believe there is a 0.9 package in testing, so I'll try that (and if > > not, I'll steal the init.d file before uninstalling ;-) > > You can install the all testin > g debian packages of > 0.9.beta7 except the alsa-modules. Instead install > alsa-source-xxx.deb, untar the alsa-driver archive > in /usr/src/modules, run "make-kpkg modules_image" > from /usr/src/linux and install your new alsa-modules > debian package.
Thanks. I've actually just got it working by compiling everything from the most recent source (installed in /usr/local) and then adding alsa-base from testing (I think) (with a link to put alsctl in the right place (and a dpkg-redirect to protect it)). Full details at http://www.acooke.org/andrew/writing/tonto.html#alsa although I guess it's probably more sensible to follow your advice and compile less by hand. > > But can't the cd player stream data from the CD and run it through the > > card's DAC? If I've got an expensive audio card I don't want to be > > listening to music through the scratty DACs that come with my OEM CD > > reader. Is there a suitable program for doing this, I do I need to grab a > > CD to disk and then play it from there?! > > Well, yes, actually you have to grab the CD as the Audiophile > is not connected directly to the CD-ROM drive. But if you use > for example xmms with the cdread plugin, the grabbing happens > in realtime and no data is written to the harddisk. "apt-get > install xmms-cdread" is your friend. Great - thanks very much (I'd been searching for a package, but hadn't found one that did that). I'll grab it now... :-) Cheers, Andrew _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
