On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 22:24, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, October 9, 2005 10:08 pm, Christopher Sawtell said: > the alsa drivers were moved into the kernel for 2.6. However they are > still developed separately. There are therefore two ways to get alsa sound > card drivers onto your system: use the drivers in the kernel, or use the > alsa-drivers package. The latter uses the separately developed drivers > (which are sometimes a little more advanced, stuff seems to get in there > before the kernel). > > > If *your* kernel has the alsa sound drivers compiled in,
probably will break your sound. > or as modules, > then installing alsa-drivers *will* break your sound. In my experience, this will not break your sound. However, as well as building and installing the drivers, it is (probably) necessary to build and install the corresponding alsa-lib and alsa-utils packages. It is also probably a good idea to save, then delete /etc/asound.state (see man alsactl) in case it has some bad settings. You need to be really sure that ALL the alsa modules that came with your kernel are unloaded before trying to load the newly built ones. Its a good idea while you are fiddling with this stuff to disable the automatic loading of alsa modules at boot time. Ubuntu experts can step in here with the how... cheers Eliot
