Alsa 1.0.18 Installation Script

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Latest post update 01/21/2009


THIS THREAD IS FROM NOW ON CONTINUED OVER HERE:

ALSA Upgrade Script

[skinnie]

worked very good for me..
HP DV9575Ep with intel HDA (realtek alc268 )
Thank you very much

[~TheMik]

Finally the other two kept failing on me, but this worked....well sort of.

Now when I open amarok and trying to play it freezes. If I select pulseaudio it will play no problems through 2 speakers only, even though the daemon.conf says 6 speakers. If I restart the x server then sound is fine and through pref < sounds I can play test sounds on pulse or alsa it is fine. As soon as I try to play through amarok with alsa then it freezes and I can no longer do test sounds. So I tryed mplayer set to pulse, just fine. I tryed it again with alsa set and unlike amarok it did play, but it was very slow and popped and clicked. I did notice that it said it was 44100 Hz, and I am not sure but I believe my cmi9761 (SI7012) is 48000 Hz only. So I will look into that.

As far as the script goes, thanks seemed to work great!!

Edit:

I got sick of messing with it and opened the package manager, searched alsa, and everything marked installed I set to reinstall and now it is fine. So I guess if you need to rollback you can try that.

[soundcheck]

Finally the other two kept failing on me, but this worked....well sort of.

Now when I open amarok and trying to play it freezes. If I select pulseaudio it will play no problems through 2 speakers only, even though the daemon.conf says 6 speakers. If I restart the x server then sound is fine and through pref < sounds I can play test sounds on pulse or alsa it is fine. As soon as I try to play through amarok with alsa then it freezes and I can no longer do test sounds. So I tryed mplayer set to pulse, just fine. I tryed it again with alsa set and unlike amarok it did play, but it was very slow and popped and clicked. I did notice that it said it was 44100 Hz, and I am not sure but I believe my cmi9761 (SI7012) is 48000 Hz only. So I will look into that.

As far as the script goes, thanks seemed to work great!!

Edit:

I got sick of messing with it and opened the package manager, searched alsa, and everything marked installed I set to reinstall and now it is fine. So I guess if you need to rollback you can try that.

Did you reboot the system after the upgrade?
Did you check alsamixer if all channels are active and unmuted?
You should run the uxchecker script. This will deliver most of the data
needed to track down the issue.
Pulse might upsample - depending on your settings - to 48khz by default. Amarok also upsamples to 48khz by default. Alsa sounds are usually also played in 48khz. Strange that Amarok locks up the system. That should never happen.

[jimifelony]

Hi I'm running ubuntu 8.04 64 bit, I selected 1.0.18, the script failed compiling utils, the log says:

checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.16... not present.
configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.
alsa-utils-1.0.18 make failed

I've done a sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev but am told I have the latest version.

Any ideas?

[jimifelony]

So ihacked my way through the dependency issues by installing the debs for libasound2 and libasound2-dev from the intrepid repository, now I have the following issue:

gcc  -g -O2   -o aplay  aplay.o  -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread
aplay.o: In function `do_test_position':
/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.18/alsa-utils-1.0.18/aplay/aplay.c:1403: undefined reference to `snd_pcm_avail_delay'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [aplay] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/Alsa-1.0.18/alsa-utils-1.0.18/aplay'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
alsa-utils-1.0.18 make failed

now I'm stumped, I guess I'll just have to dist-upgrade to intrepid...

[soundcheck]

Hi I'm running ubuntu 8.04 64 bit, I selected 1.0.18, the script failed compiling utils, the log says:

checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.16... not present.
configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.
alsa-utils-1.0.18 make failed

I've done a sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev but am told I have the latest version.

Any ideas?

Hi.

1. The script downloads the latest libasound-dev from the repositories by itself. No need to do it manually.
2. All packages compiled OK except the alsa-utils.
3. I am wondering if the newly build libasound needs to be installed (make install) prior to building the utils. When testing the whole thing I started off from an 1.0.18-rc3 installation.

I separated this step "configure/make" from "make install" on purpose. If a configure or make would fail on a later compiled package this would cause inconsistencies. Such a thing would have happened in your case. But now - your system is still untouched.

Perhaps we need to tell the utils-package where to find the new libasound-headers.

I'll check it out.

[karltron]

Hi I'm running ubuntu 8.04 64 bit, I selected 1.0.18, the script failed compiling utils, the log says:

checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.16... not present.
configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.
alsa-utils-1.0.18 make failed

I've done a sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev but am told I have the latest version.

Any ideas?

I have the same issue. My other problem is that I'm a linux newbie, so i might have trouble following these directions.

I have an old intel motherboarded pentium3 with a newish install of Hardy Heron. The sound card is onboard and I havent checked the chipset name yet. Sound works under Windows without special drivers due to the age of the board, and I don't really know what to do with linux. This was the first thing I tried, because this script looks like it takes care of everything for me. I ran the 1.0.18 under the assumption that bigger numbers are better.

This was the result:

checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.16... not present.
configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.
alsa-utils-1.0.18 make failed

Thanks for any support, and let me know if I can get you any extra information about the system environment.

[blackest_knight]

Oh dear The first scripton this thread seems to have broke on my Aspire one running Hardy.

1.0.18final Alsa drivers installed but didn't work, alsamixer failed too alsactl -v says 1.0.18


however the earlier script 1.0.18r3 works a treat

So I am reuploading it here with this Post.

I havent tried the latest revision a cpl of posts up from this one. but the first one in this thread seems broke to me.

[wells24]

Tkx for the script

I'm having problem to have my sound card to work with Intrepid Ibex 8.10
my laptop is an acer aspire 6920
running Intrepid Ibex 8.10
Kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
Chip ALC889

Everything was working grate on ubuntu 8.04
than upgrade to Ibex and sound card went down.



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