[PlanetCCRMA] Echo Mia - Alsa Drivers

[Eli Cantu]

Quoting Eli Cantu <eli@then7.com>:

> Quoting Aaron Trumm <aaron@nquit.com>:
>
> > > I'm out of my league at this point, but I thought I could do something
> > like...
> > > Take CCRMA's Alsa-driver source rpms, open them up, patch them with the
> > > EchoaudioPatch_0.9.6.patch(from linked web site), then rebuild the RPM?
> > Then
> > > rpm -e --nodeps the original or possibly just rpm -Uvh over the top.
> >
> > sounds about right to me
> >
> > that's pretty much exactly what I just did.  I'm using all planet flow and
> > there was a driver for my card, but it needed a patch to work, and I did
> > exactly what you just said.  - there was a bit of hulabaloo around the
> other
> > version of the driver, but eventually with fernando and mark's help I got
> it
> > working.
> >
> > just get the source rpm, install it, get the .spec file, add the patch
> > (sounds like you know how to do that - right?), rebuild
> >
> > the only thing I can think of is you need to make sure your rebuild is for
> > the right architechture - I had some trouble with that - check out
> > http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/recompilealsa.html  for
> > more on doing this stuff  - except that there's an instruction in there
> > about how to check the architecture flag in the kernel rpm and I never
> could
> > get it to work - fernando gave me another version of the command and THAT
> > didn't work either, and finally, fernando told me to do
> >
> > rpm -q --provides <kernel_name>
> >
> > I hope that's the right syntax...
> >
> > that'll give you an output that'll reveal the architecture and you can
> > rpmbuild -ba --target <arch_name>  <rpm_name>
> >
> > I think if all goes well that's all you need to do.  I'm sure fernando and
> > mark will chime in if I'm forgetting something (geeze it's only been a
> > couple days *laugh*) - and of course let us know how it goes :)
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> WOO HOO!
> Houston Control, we are good to go.
>
> Thanks Nando, Aaron & pochini@shiny.it(echo driver)
>
> Ok, enough of the celebration. I've got sound...man this card(echo mia) makes
> my
> sblive sound like cats scratching chalkboards.
>
> One issue that is tops now is apt reports dependency problem. I think this is
> because the rpm that I built has a different name then the original one.
> Here's
> the error:
>
> #error begin
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> planetccrma-core:
> Depends:alsa-kernel-arch-2.4.22-6.ll.rh90(=0.9.6-2.cvs.rh90-athlon)
>        Depends: alsa-driver (= 0.9.6-2.cvs.rh90) but 0.9.6-2.cvs is installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> #error end
>
>
>
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> #rough steps i took begin
>
> download alsa-driver source rpm from ccrma.
>
> install it.
>
> extract source tree from alsa-driver source file.
>
> download 2 echo-audio files.
> (from:http://space.virgilio.it/g_pochini@virgilio.it/ea.html)
>
> incorporate echo-audio source trees into alsa-driver source tree. (per link
> above)
>
> patch alsa-driver with echo-patch.(per link above)
>
> recompress the alsa-driver tree (patched, and with echo tree additions) back
> into a single tar.bz2 file.
>
> replace the original alsa-driver-src.tar.bz2 with my newly made one.
>
> build my new rpms using "rpmbuild -bb --target athlon --define "cards
> echoaudio"
> alsa-driver-0.9.6-2.cvs.spec" per ccrma index, and the link above.
>
> removed my originally installed alsa-kernel and alsa-driver using "rpm -e
> --nodeps"
>
> installed my new alsa-kernel and new alsa-driver.
>
> edited my modules.conf according to ccrma and alsa info.
>
> modprobe snd-echoaudio & "/etc/init.d/alsasound status" (no errors
> reported,alsasound status reported "started")
>
> supposed to unmute according to everyone, tried all sorts of syntax with
> amixer,
> like  "amixer set PCM 0 unmute", no matter, what I kept getting: "Unknown
> playback setup 'unmute'.."
>
> decide to try sound anyhow.  tested audio via winamp/shoutcast.
>
> success! (finessed volumes with alsamixer)
>
> #rough steps i took end
>
> I need to get my apt dependency error fixed, because I cannot download
> applications automatically from ccrma until it is fixed.
>
> I'm new to ccrma (just found it last weekend), so I have lots of stuff to
> play
> with.
>
> Thanks again for the great site(ccrma/nando), thanks for suggestions
> aaron(the
> arch was easy to find per your directions), and thanks pochini@shiny.it for
> the
> echo driver/directions!
>
> -Eli
>
>
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p.s. here's the output of # rpm -qa | grep alsa

alsa-utils-0.9.6-2.cvs.rh90
alsa-lib-0.9.6-2.cvs.rh90
alsa-kernel-2.4.22-6.ll.rh90-0.9.6-2.cvs
alsa-tools-0.9.6-2.cvs.rh90
alsa-lib-devel-0.9.6-2.cvs.rh90
alsa-driver-0.9.6-2.cvs

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