ALSA Upgrade Script

[lobaofernando]

It's amazing this post, thanks for all
now i use my sound card correctly.
Nice job!!!!

[doyama]

I'm getting an error similar to a previous poster
I'm running
Ubuntu 8.10
Kernel: 2.6.27-11
Alsa revision : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.17.
Upgrade script revision : AlsaUpgrade-1.0.x-rev-1.16.sh

At this point I've only tried to download the source files and compile them. I tried the snap option as well. I suspect I am doing something incredibly stupid but some assistance would be appreciated. Here's the last part of the log file before it fails.

Hacking autoconf.h...
make dep
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.19/alsa-driver-1.0.19'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.19/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore'
copying file alsa-kernel/core/info.c
/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.19/alsa-driver-1.0.19/utils/patch-alsa: 24: patch: not found
make[2]: *** [info.c] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.19/alsa-driver-1.0.19/acore'
make[1]: *** [dep] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.19/alsa-driver-1.0.19'
make: *** [include/sndversions.h] Error 2
alsa-driver-1.0.19 make failed

[hgeenen]

At this point I've only tried to download the source files and compile them. I tried the snap option as well. I suspect I am doing something incredibly stupid but some assistance would be appreciated.

No. We are not stupid What's missing is the patch program. Install it

sudo apt-get install patch

and go ahead with the Alsa Upgrade Script.

Hannes

[snarve]

Thanks for the info. I got my sound card working after I ran the Alsa upgrade script with -di option and restarted my laptop.


System information:

Lenovo laptop

Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron

[Xyem]

I'm having a little trouble with 1.0.19 on my Acer Aspire 5930.
With 1.0.17, I had the "Side" channel which provided some extra volume and most of the bass for my sound output. Since I've upgraded though, I only get ( relatively ) quiet and mostly treble output.

The laptop has "Virtual SurroundSound" and I think the problem is only the Front output is working. I can only get output on other channels if I run

speaker-test -l1 -twave -Dplug:default

which results in a very deep voice saying things on the wrong speakers ( saying "Front Right" on the Left speaker ). Any other parameters only gives me 2 channels being output..

Anyone else experienced similiar problems or could point me in the right direction to help me diagnose the problem? 1.0.17 played music really well ( even bass-y music ) but 1.0.19 has "broken" that ( but given me HDMI output )

Fixed this I had to add the following to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base:

options snd-hda-intel model=acer

[maxim99]

This script worked for me! Thank you very much! My hardware is the Intel motherboard: DG45FC and after running the script and rebooting it worked out of the box! Thanks again for writting such a useful script! I wish the ubuntu repos would hurry up and catch up with the releases of ALSA, probably save a lot of people headaches.

[urs_buddy7]

Hi ,
First of all thanks for the script.
On Ubuntu 8.04 with & ATI radeon 3200 card configuration i am trying to get my HDMI speakers to work.
When i did Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) fresh install & installed proprietory ati driver 8.12 i am able to get beep sound in test of gnome-sound-properties but still mplayer or vlc or any other player is still not giving any sound output.

To make sound work on Ubuntu 8.04 i looked for alsa versions in both system & found that Ubuntu 8.10 working on alsa-1.0.17. So i thought to do an alsa upgrade to 1.0.19 on my Ubuntu 8.04 installation

Using the script mentioned i did alsa upgrade to 1.0.19 but still with Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04) i cant hear any sound in test of gnome-sound-properties. Can anyone here help me out to at least upgrade my hardy installation to intrepid levels so that i can hear voice in test from gnome-sound-properties??

[quackdamnyou]

I just ran this on Ubuntu 8.10 and now the sound on my ASUS P5Q works just great! I had tried to update ALSA manually but it didn't pan out.

Thanks!

[redenex]

no luck with this either!

[redenex]

Latest post update 01/21/2009
To test your first (default-index 0 X=0) soundcard, type e.g.:
$ aplay -Dplughw:X,0 -fcd /<your-music-directory>/<replace-this-with-your-soundfile>.wav
or e.g.
$ speaker-test -Dplughw:X,0 -c2
replace the X with the index of your soundcard index , which you find out by typing "aplay -l" - look for "card X"

The second option works for me, I can hear sound, but when I try the first option to play an mp3 file, it doesn't, what could be wrong?

root@AbleBlue:/opt# aplay -Dplughw:0,0 -fcd /home/moon/Music/Sadma.mp3
Playing raw data '/home/moon/Music/Sadma.mp3' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
root@AbleBlue:/opt#