Mark Priestley wrote:
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Mark Priestley wrote:
I've been building my first {B}LFS system on and off for the last few
months, and it's been great. In general I've found the instructions
awesomely clear and complete, and with the aid of Edgar Alwers' hint got
my laptop hooked up to my wireless network, which I'd never managed to
do with any of the "major" distros.
But I fell over badly trying to understand ALSA and get sound working.
Now partly this was due to my general ignorance, and I have eventually
succeeded and learnt a lot from doing it, so I'm not complaining. But
my query is: why isn't there a chapter in the BLFS book about compiling
ALSA drivers?
This wasn't straightforward: starting from my LFS system, I had to
recompile the kernel twice, once (I think) to get the appropriate
information that the ALSA configuration needed, and again to have ALSA
provided as modules, not compiled into the kernel. This seems to
require a significantly higher level of knowledge and confidence than
much of the rest of the book.
Could just be me, of course. Anyway, thanks again to all involved in
LFS, and this list, and keep up the good work!
Mark
No other hardware driver info is listed in BLFS, nor does it need to be.
There are simply too many possibilities due to the range of hardware. I
don't understand the comment about compiling the ALSA stuff as modules,
since it should work fine either as builtin or modules. The only
potential source of confusion I can see is that some programs may need
OSS or ALSA OSS emulation, but then the menuconfig help does
specifically tell you that you may want to enable that since many
programs need it. I don't see it as being complicated.
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