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[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:42:48AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>   
>> Well one method would be to just get the .deb packages from somewhere
>> that has them such as ubuntu hardy.
>>
>> You can get the .deb's and install them with dpkg -i blah.deb ...
>>
>> You can find them here:
>> http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/alsa-driver/
>> http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/alsa-lib/
>>     
Okay, I found a .deb there (libasound2_1.0.15-3ubuntu3_i386.deb). I 
downloaded that and ran dpkg and it told me there is an unsatisfied 
dependency so I tried apt-get install that dependency and then was 
advised 'You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these'. 
So I that's what I'm doing. Since there's no one around I'm going to go 
ahead with all this then you guys can tell me what I did wrong so I can 
do another reinstall on Sunday night. Man, endlessly screwing around 
with things that are way over my head is so much more satisfying than 
actually bein gable to just record music on my
>> http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/alsa-utils/
>> http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/alsa-plugins/
>>
>> And you can get the alsa-firmware for 1.0.15 from the same place you got
>> it before, or you can get it here:
>>
>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/tsmithe/ubuntu/pool/main/a/alsa-firmware/
>>     
>
> If you do install all those updated alsa packages (and I guess any
> dependancies they demand as well), then you can compile and install the
> updated alsa-source drivers with this command:
>
> apt-get install module-assistant
> m-a -t prepare
> m-a a-i -t alsa
>
> That should hopefully work OK, and after a reboot you should hopefully
> see alsa version 1.0.15 in /proc/asound/version
>
> Hopefully at that point the mixer settings become more sane since it
> won't be the very first early release of support for the emu, but rather
> the updated and somewhat more complete driver.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
> --

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