ALSA Upgrade Script

[bootdoc]

@bootdoc, you need the libasound-dev package. It should have been installed by the script.

Thanks, That was it. I installed libasound-2 via synaptic and the everything compiled.

But ran -i and got this:
configure: error: required curses helper header not found

alsa-utils-1.0.22 configure failed

[Yellow Pasque]

Thanks, That was it. I installed libasound-2 via synaptic and the everything compiled.

But ran -i and got this:
configure: error: required curses helper header not found

alsa-utils-1.0.22 configure failed

You should start over from the beginning, or at least, manually run the command to get the dependencies and then run the building/compilation phase again:

sudo apt-get -y install bzip2 build-essential module-assistant libsysfs-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev gettext python-dev xmlto libpulse0 libpulse-dev libspeex-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libmpeg4ip-dev liba52-0.7.4-dev libsamplerate0-dev  linux-headers-`uname -r` libfltk1.1-dev

[zazi]

After hours of configuring and installing and compiling, I got it finally to work:

Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion
Product Name: FL308AA-ABD IQ512de
Kernel release: 2.6.32-21-generic
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: x86_64
Distribution: Ubuntu lucid Beta 2
Soundcard: HDA Intel (Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 04))
Codec: Analog Devices AD1984B
Alsa Driver version: 1.0.22.1
Alsa Library version: 1.0.22
Alsa Utilities version: 1.0.22

Thanks for all the useful information.

[Yellow Pasque]

ALSA 1.0.23 is now released: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...1.0.22_v1.0.23

I just modified the following lines:

PACKAGE=1.0.23

setpack () {
DRIVER=alsa-driver-1.0.23
FIRMWARE=alsa-firmware-1.0.23
LIB=alsa-lib-1.0.23
PLUGINS=alsa-plugins-1.0.23
UTILS=alsa-utils-1.0.23
TOOLS=alsa-tools-1.0.23
OSS=alsa-oss-1.0.17
}

It built/installed successfully on Lucid

[Objekt]

Neat. Maybe I'll give it another try. It didn't work out when I tried to upgrade to 1.0.22.

If the 1.0.23 ALSA upgrade works, it won't do anything to PulseAudio, right? PulseAudio generally works fine for me, so I don't want to get rid of it. Still, it's good to have alternatives.

[yonkiman]

ALSA 1.0.23 is now released:...
I just modified the following lines...
It built/installed successfully on Lucid

Thanks for the tip. I just tried it on Karmic with your changes, and while it referred to 1.0.23 hundreds of times during the build/install, after I reboot and then "cat /proc/asound/version", I still get 1.0.22.1.

Does your build report 1.0.23?

[Landser01]

First of all, thank you very much for this! I've been having my sound coming from speakers AND headphones with no solution for a while now.

Second, I'm an Ubuntu newbie, so seeing all those lines flying by on the terminal during download, compilation and installation was daunting to say the least. This is an amazing piece of work, so thanks again!

[el_baby]

Thanks for the tip. I just tried it on Karmic with your changes, and while it referred to 1.0.23 hundreds of times during the build/install, after I reboot and then "cat /proc/asound/version", I still get 1.0.22.1.

Does your build report 1.0.23?

FWIW, I did the same on my hardy system (I had previously edited the script so it wouldn't install all the drivers) and it worked just fine, and yes, "cat /proc/asound/version" does yeld 1.0.23.

You did edit all the lines in the setpack() function of the script, did you?

[Yellow Pasque]

Does your build report 1.0.23?

Yes, both 'cat /proc/asound/version' and alsamixer report 1.0.23

[bootdoc]

You should start over from the beginning, or at least, manually run the command to get the dependencies and then run the building/compilation phase again:

sudo apt-get -y install bzip2 build-essential module-assistant libsysfs-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev gettext python-dev xmlto libpulse0 libpulse-dev libspeex-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libmpeg4ip-dev liba52-0.7.4-dev libsamplerate0-dev  linux-headers-`uname -r` libfltk1.1-dev

Thanks for the help. The install finished with no errors. I still do not have sound. Ran speaker-test -Dplughw:0,0 -c2 and alsamixer to make sure nothing was muted.

also ran:
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.22.1.
Compiled on Mar 25 2010 for kernel 2.6.31-21-generic (SMP).

I edited the script as per the above post and 1.0.22.1 is installed instead of 1.0.23.

I'll try again.