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Post subject: what version of ALSA is on your system?
 Posted: Aug 09, 2006 - 01:45 PM
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I'm a bit puzzled as to why doing
cat /proc/asound/version
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Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc4 (Wed Mar 22 10:27:24 2006 UTC).
on my system. I'm running the latest 2.6.17.8-slh64 kernel and have been faithfully doing monthly dist-upgrades (after doing an /etc/init.d/alsa force-unload).
Shouldn't this say ALSA 1.0.11 by now? The ALSA code is actually up to 1.0.12rc1 already... |
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Post subject: RE: what version of ALSA is on your system?
Posted: Aug 09, 2006 - 02:50 PM
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| alsa-utils are external, the driver itself in in the kernel. so tools/driver mismatch. |
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Post subject: RE: what version of ALSA is on your system?
Posted: Aug 09, 2006 - 05:03 PM
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| To confirm: the 2.6.17.8 kernel still uses the ALSA 1.0.11rc4 driver and all of the Kanotix kernels show that for /proc/asound/version? |
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Post subject: RE: what version of ALSA is on your system?
Posted: Aug 09, 2006 - 05:53 PM
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For the version junkies around, Kanotix uses the ALSA modules of the vanilla kernel.org kernel - which means 1.0.11rc4 + a significant amount of bugfixes on top of it for kernel 2.6.17 and 1.0.12rc1 for kernel 2.6.18, doing otherwise creates more trouble than it might eventually solve. 99% of all users don't see the slightest difference between ALSA versions, while real regressions with less tested ALSA versions (nothing gets you the exposure the in-kernel ALSA version gets - and especially not fast bugfixes) happen all the time - been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
...but if it would help you, I could change the version string to 2.0.13-notreallyexistingyet-mustbegreat-getitnow... |
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Post subject: RE: what version of ALSA is on your system?
Posted: Aug 09, 2006 - 06:26 PM
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^^^^^  ) ^^^^^
Thanks slh for your always great work on our kernels!
Greetings,
Chris |
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Post subject: RE: what version of ALSA is on your system?
Posted: Aug 09, 2006 - 06:32 PM
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Thanks for the clarification, slh, and for always building the kernels the same day they're released 
I was just puzzled as to why it still claimed to be 1.0.11rc4 when 1.0.11 has been released for so long now (I was worried my system wasn't being updated properly |
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