ALSA Upgrade Script

[soundcheck]

I think I have found a regression either in the script or alsa 1.0.19

my geforce 8300 (same as 8200) chipset did not go to spdif anymore when I had to use the script after an update, I changed from 1.0.18 to 1.0.19 during this

it took some time to figure out but I needed to add

found it here link

Yeah. This is a typical problem. I am mentioning it in the first post. That's why I added the document with the different model IDs.

It is always a good idea to feed these kind of findings back to the ALSA guys. Run the alsa-info.sh and explain your findings to the alsa mailing list.


Cheers

[rodercot]

Hey All,

It seems the Alsa FTP site is down since last night at around 11pm. I have a local downloaded copy of 1.0.19 and all the sub dirs, that I copied over to my server from the usr/src folder following a previous 1.16 script upgrade.

When I copy it back to the machine I want to install alsa on using the script -i I get a quick line 218 ./configure permission denied and am running the script with sudo.

I have tried to chown the Alsa-1.0.19 dir once on the proper machine but it sets the whole directory to root owner and grp.

Is there a way to set the permission on this folder at the top level so at Alsa-1.0.19.

Thanks,

Dave

[Andre_44]

can you share the driver files? I'm trying to do the upgrade now and the ftp site is still down.

[Andre_44]

Scratch that, I found a mirror
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/alsa/

[Sammi]

Scratch that, I found a mirror
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/alsa/

Thanks. Was going mad waiting for it to come up again.

Managed to get the script running with the -di parameter, by opening it in gedit and using find/replace to replace all occurrences of ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/ with a mirror.

Full mirror list:

US mirrors:
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ftp.silug.org:/pub/alsa
ftp.eecs.umich.edu:/pub/linux/alsa
ftp.rfc822.org:/pub/mirror/ftp.alsa-project.org/pub

Europe mirrors:
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linux.a2000.nl:/alsa
ftp.sunet.se:/pub/Linux/alsa
ftp.task.gda.pl:/pub/linux/misc/alsa
sunsite.uio.no:/pub/linux/sound/alsa
gd.tuwien.ac.at:/opsys/linux/alsa

Asia mirrors:
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linux.sarang.net:/mirror/driver/sound/alsa

Australia mirrors:
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ftp.suburbia.com.au:/pub/alsa
mirror.aarnet.edu.au:/pub/alsa

Japan mirrors:
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ftp.nagoyalinux.org:/mirror/alsa

[Xyem]

Can I run this script to *install* ALSA instead of installing 1.0.17 and then upgrading ( and having aptitude think 1.0.17 is installed ) to 1.0.19 using this script?

I guess to -r option completely "removes" the update ( for when Ubuntu actually catches up with 1.0.19 which I need for my HDMI audio and headphones to work ). Am I correct in thinking this?

Thanks for a great script It is an excellent piece of work!

[mperrin]

The alsa-project ftp site is still down at the time of this post. I modified the rev-1.16 shell script to prompt the user for an alternate ftp repo when the -d or -di option is used. The hacked script, designated as rev-1.16-1, is attached. Perhaps soundcheck will consider incorporating this feature into his next revision.

[Lampi]

Thank you very much got good sound now Ubuntu 8.10, alsa 1.0.19, vdr, xbmc

could you explain how you get vdr-sxfe working with hdmi audio?

aplay -Dplughw:1,3 <file>.wav

will play the sound on my Tv (connected through a hdmi cable), but

vdr-sxfe --audio=alsa:1:3

won't play any sound. From the output I get on terminal it uses the appropriate device (1:3) but that's it, no sound at all, no error messages!

I recompiled xineliboutput cvs version 1.04 to make sure it detects the new alsa library (1.0.19) - didn't help.

OS is Kubuntu Intrepid, same kernel you use - notification sounds via HDMI are working as well after I changed the device to 1:3 in sound manager. It's just the vdr-sxfe ...

[michelino]

fast mirror:

http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.alsa-project.org/

[slday]

Good day, I'm a user of laptop Acer Aspire 6920g... I installed latest Ubuntu 8.10 (amd64) and everything was working like a charm except the sound.

I upgraded the ALSA to the latest version (19) and the sound is working very good at the moment. But my internal microphone is dead.

I think I tried everything. I'm feel very sad What can you suggest?