Re: Replacing i810_audio with ALSA

[Tony Nugent <tony linuxworks com au>]

On Fri Nov 01 2002 at 09:41, "A. Johnson Jeba Asir" wrote:

> Hello all,
> 		my RH 7.2 linux box already has i810_audio driver. I want
> to replace it with ALSA. How do I proceed it. Can somebody help me out
> to solve this problem?

A few days ago I successfully installed alsa on a rh80 box.  I'm
impressed, very cool (especially for multi-channel or multiple
soundcards).  I got the rpms from freshrpms.net, and they installed
without a hitch.  The drivers even worked with the video4linux
bttv/saaXXX tv/radio tuner drivers, nice.

However, there are no alsa packages available at freshrpms for
either rh73 or rh72.

I'm still running enigma on my workstation (why upgrade when this
box is very nicely tweaked and doing everything I want it to do? :)
I have been toying with the idea of rebuilding the alsa src.rpms on
this box, but I haven't got around to trying it yet.

Until I do that, I have no idea if they will build on rh72, or even
work if they do compile.  It is probably more likely to work after
the recent update from the 2.4.9 to the 2.4.18 kernel, so you might
want to try doing this yourself.

As for installing and configuring it, the documentation was good
enough to get me there.  However, there is a page at freshrpms that
has some more good hints for using it, and I'd recommend checking it
(eg, how to set up modules.conf to automatically set and save the
volume levels when the modules are loaded and unloaded).

> Thanks in advance
> 
> Regards,
> A. Johnson

Cheers
Tony