On 2/22/19 1:43 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote:
On 2/22/19 1:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote:
On 2/22/19 1:04 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote:
On 2/22/19 12:21 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote:
There has been some problem with ALSA getting their download site
working properly. The only offer ftp right now. I'll leave most of
the book as is for now as the ALSA home page and everyone else
(Arch, etc) also points to the ftp site for sources.
There is a problem with alsa-firmware.
https://alsa-project.org/wiki/Main_Page now only points to git.
I am proposing dropping alsa-firmware from the book. There is
nothing that references it.
Any objections?
I was going to say go ahead, but it looks like it installs firmware
for Sound Blaster 16 cards, which is what Qemu and other
virtualization software emulate. I'm not sure if we'll still be able
to get sound out of VMs if we drop this.
I've never tried to get sound out of a VM. Could the user just use a
different sound hw emulation?
$ qemu -soundhw list
qemu: -soundhw list: Unknown sound card name `list'
Valid sound card names (comma separated):
sb16 Creative Sound Blaster 16
es1370 ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370
ac97 Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio
adlib Yamaha YM3812 (OPL2)
gus Gravis Ultrasound GF1
cs4231a CS4231A
hda Intel HD Audio
pcspk PC speaker
I think the only ones out of that list that *doesn't* need Firmware are
HDA and PCSPK. The others have firmware installed by alsa-firmware.
I'd have to try HDA and get back to you. Everything I've ever seen or
used has SB16, from a variety of different hypervisors.
Well, we can leave it in for now, but the alsa site seems to keep having
issues with their ftp site. The home page says to use git, but I notice
that Arch is still using the same version we are.
-- Bruce
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