On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:46:21PM +0800, asho wrote: > hello: > > I have a new question about building the alsa driver. > Recently, I downloaded the alsa tarball from ALSA website and > configure;make;make install. > Now I want to find out the apt method. > > I lookup the the package list, I found serveral alsa packages > such as alsa-source,alsa-headers,libasound1... > > Now my question is "What should I do to build alsa drivers???" > > I tested the alsa-source. > > My step was like below: > > 1. apt-get install alsa-source-0.5 > > 2. cd /usr/src/ > > 3. tar zxf alsa-driversxxxx > > 4. cd modules > > 5. cd debian > > 6. dpkg-buildpackage > (some errors happened) > > So I tried not to use the dpkg-buildpackage > > 7. cd ../ > > 8. configure;make;make install > > Was that the right way to build alsa drivers??? >
I've always used the make-kpkg method and made a modules_image after I compiled my kernel. This method makes a neat little *.deb for you to install. I would look at the docus in /usr/share/doc/alsa-base for some more info. HTH. Eamon Roque.
