Alsa install

Up to version 1. I get no errors compiling alsa-lib. Any help apreciated. Thanks for sharing your results. I solved it by adding —disable-alsatest to the. Not sure if I broke something or not by doing this but so far it seems to work. I now have both lib and utils at version 1.

To self-identify, I am an idiot when it comes to programming this Pi. If you are interested, please subscribe to a mailing list. We need application developers who choose to use ALSA as the basis for their programs, programmers to work on low level drivers, writers to extend and improve our documentation. Jump to: navigation , search.

Current versions stable linux kernel linux firmware files GIT alsa-firmware First, untar and uncompress the alsa-driver package with the command: tar —Ixvf alsa-driver If you don't use an ISA sound card, select no. If another location is required, enter the directory path to that location e. I don't require the isapnp package, and I don't use OSS emulation. The alsa-driver package uses the snddevices script to create these files.

To run the snddevices script, run the following command from the alsa-driver package directory as root:. Only users who are members of this group will be able to read and write to the audio hardware sound card. Users who require the ability to configure the sound card will need to be made members of this group.

If you are running a 2. Once these packages are installed, you're ready to start configuring ALSA. This utility is actually a script that allows the user to select the sound card and then automatically generates the necessary configuration files. Remember that ALSA also requires kernel modules to be loaded to provide support for a specific sound card. If you have a kernel from the 2. If you have a 2. Make sure you have a kernel source tree that you've already compiled from. The kernel must have sound support turned ON in your kernel settings soundcore module.

Any other kernel options regarding sound can be switched OFF. Of course, you need a sound card that is supported by ALSA. Check out the ALSA sound card matrix. I recommend you get the drivers, the libraries, the utils and the OSS compat modules to start with.

Next, put them into some directory, e. Note: To avoid problems, stick to the order the modules are installed here, i. To get a complete list of all options:.