trouble upgrading alsa driver

[killermonkey]

Hi everyone!

I just found out that my microphone doesn't work. I use Maverick and I read this troublesh0oting guide, the fact is that it says that Ubuntu 10.10 comes with alsa drivers 1.0.23 by default and mine is 1.0.21. I read another post where they said upgrading this might work (in fact it did in 10.04).

I tried to upgrade it by instaling alsa-driver-1.0.23 from the alsa website, but when I run ./configure it says "Please install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution" I have the Kernel Linux 2.6.32-25-generic installed on my computer. Does anyone know how to upgrade alsa-driver?

Thanks!

[lidex]

Hi everyone!

I just found out that my microphone doesn't work. I use Maverick and I read this troublesh0oting guide, the fact is that it says that Ubuntu 10.10 comes with alsa drivers 1.0.23 by default and mine is 1.0.21. I read another post where they said upgrading this might work (in fact it did in 10.04).

I tried to upgrade it by instaling alsa-driver-1.0.23 from the alsa website, but when I run ./configure it says "Please install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution" I have the Kernel Linux 2.6.32-25-generic installed on my computer. Does anyone know how to upgrade alsa-driver?

Thanks!

You're loading the wrong kernel. Try this:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo update-grub

Now reboot. At the grub screen make sure the latest kernel is selected - should be 2.6.35*

[killermonkey]

Yes that worked perfectly! How do I know when its time to
sudo update-grub
You guys at this forum are amazing!

[lidex]

Yes that worked perfectly! How do I know when its time to
sudo update-grub
You guys at this forum are amazing!

Should be done automatically - I haven't had a problem for a long time. Just be aware of the kernel series for a given release.

karmic 2.6.31*
lucid  2.6.32*
maverick  2.6.35*

At some point you'll want to uninstall the outdated kernel and header packages.

[angliski]

I have a similar problem with the same kernel heading in grub. When I tried to run the above command in terminal all I got was. "the update command takes no arguments. Please help. I am desperate to talk to my girl friend in Sweden
Steve

[lidex]

I have a similar problem with the same kernel heading in grub. When I tried to run the above command in terminal all I got was. "the update command takes no arguments. Please help. I am desperate to talk to my girl friend in Sweden
Steve

OK, you lost me.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo update-grub

One line at a time. Nothing comes after 'update-grub'

[Eddie-GNOME]

Hi everyone!

I just found out that my microphone doesn't work. I use Maverick and I read this troublesh0oting guide, the fact is that it says that Ubuntu 10.10 comes with alsa drivers 1.0.23 by default and mine is 1.0.21. I read another post where they said upgrading this might work (in fact it did in 10.04).

I tried to upgrade it by instaling alsa-driver-1.0.23 from the alsa website, but when I run ./configure it says "Please install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution" I have the Kernel Linux 2.6.32-25-generic installed on my computer. Does anyone know how to upgrade alsa-driver?

Thanks!

ok...i got the same problem and ive solved it,,,,,

open your terminal and type

sudo aptitude install build-essential libncurses-dev gettext xmlto xmltoman linux-headers-`uname -r`

(for the installation of alsa tools...drivers and other stuffs)

than download the latest alsa driver from here

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page 

download these things:
-

• alsa-driver-1.0.24
• alsa-lib-1.0.24.1
• alsa-utils-1.0.24.2

they are on the right top of page,,,,

than place it on desktop..
when you do that open your terminal and type

sudo mkdir -p /usr/src/alsa
cd /usr/src/alsa
sudo cp ~/Desktop/alsa* .
sudo tar xjf alsa-driver*.bz2
sudo tar xjf alsa-lib*.tar.bz2
sudo tar xjf alsa-utils*.tar.bz2

the next steps are compiling and installing ALSA driver.

type in terminal

cd alsa-driver*
sudo ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo make
sudo make install

next steps are compiling and installing ALSA-lib

cd ../alsa-lib*
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

then after that is compiling and installing ALSA-utils

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
cd ../alsa-utils*
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

THATS IT,,,,IF YOU DIDNT HAVE ANY MISTAKES THAN JUST RESTART YOUR COMPUTER AND ENJOY IN YOUR SOUND!!!

[James MG]

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