Driver Compilation

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Contents 1 Pre-requisites 2 Compilation commands 3 Distribution specific 3.1 SUSE Linux/OpenSUSE 3.2 Red Hat Fedora 3.2.1 Fedora 8 3.3 Gentoo Linux

[edit] Pre-requisites

• full kernel sources (see to distribution specific section)
• gcc (C compiler)
• autoconf (only necessary if you need to use hgcompile script)

[edit] Compilation commands

# ./configure
# make
# make install

Note: Example above will replace ALSA drivers for current kernel with drivers compiled from source.

[edit] Distribution specific

[edit] SUSE Linux/OpenSUSE

install appropriate kernel-source rpm package

[edit] Red Hat Fedora

install appropriate kernel-source rpm package

[edit] Fedora 8

install appropriate kernel-devel rpm package only (ommit kernel-sources)!

Instructions for Fedora 8

[edit] Gentoo Linux

Run emerge media-sound/alsa-driver to get the latest stable version.
Note: this driver is now disencouraged, Gentoo recently switched to using the in-kernel driver as its first choice!

If you want the latest sources, use emerge --oneshot =media-sound/alsa-driver-9999 which will download the mercurial source tree, compile it and install it for you.

Follow the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide to install ALSA.