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This page assumes a level of technical competence and computer knowledge above that of most computer users. Please follow its instructions carefully and be prepared to go to other websites for clarification.

Alsa's CVS can be checked out by following the instructions below.

Create a new directory with nothing in it and move into it:

mkdir alsacvs
cd alsacvs

Download the cvs of alsa:

This is the link to the main ALSA drivers, not the CVS versions.

Rsync is a quick and easy method of keeping up with the latest ALSA HG

rsync -avz --delete rsync://alsa.alsa-project.org/hg your_directory

You should get this: - and a few others

alsa-driver  alsa-kernel  alsa-lib  alsa-utils

Start by compiling the kernel modules, so go into the alsa-driver directory:

cd alsa-driver

Run the autoconf command to create the configure script

Try to find out which card module you will need.

./configure --help

and look at the --with-cards list and try and find yours. For me it is emu10k1 (for Audigy 2) and usb-audio (usb based sound card.)

./cvscompile --with-cards=emu10k1,usb-audio

That should have compiled your alsa-drivers. To install them:

make install

Only if you are not using the devfs (device file system) remember to do "snddevices" now. snddevices

Now compile and install the rest of alsa.

cd ../alsa-lib
./cvscompile
make install

cd ../alsa-utils
./cvscompile
make install

For debian specific user (SID): I successfuly compiled alsa cvs using these version of program:

After running ./cvscompile, look at Makefile.in and check it says something at the top like "# Makefile.in generated by automake 1.7.9 from Makefile.am

See also

Retrieved from "http://alsa.opensrc.org/AlsaCVS"

Category: Installation