[PlanetCCRMA] rebuilding alsa for edge kernel

[Hector Centeno]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:36, Hector Centeno wrote:
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>>I just successfully rebuilt the alsa-driver and alsa-kernel for the 
>>2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrma. I had to do it in order to include a patch 
>>that allows me to use my USB keyboard (Miditech Midistuido-2). I 
>>downloaded the alsa source rpm from the CCRMA repository and everything 
>>worked fine (I uninstalled the default Kernel-module-alsa for installing 
>>the new compiled alsa-kernel). Now I'm trying to do the same for the 
>>last edge kernel (0.21) following the same procedure but is not working. 
>>Even though I recompiled the alsa-kernel, at boot it complains about 
>>unknown symbols. If I uninstall the rebuilt kernel 
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>You mean "kernel-module-alsa-...", right?
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>>and reinstall the 
>>official one everything works fine. Is there a different procedure to 
>>follow for building the alsa-kernel for the edge kernels? Do I need a 
>>different alsa-driver.spec file?
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>No, the same one should work for both kernels. Are you booting into the
>edge kernel when you rebuild the rpm? Otherwise you have to tell the
>spec file which kernel you are building on:
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># kernel version:           --define "kernel_version VERSION_TO_USE"
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>But if you are running the edge kernel the spec file should pick up the
>right kernel version. Are you using the right target cpu? (either
>"--target i686" or "--target i586", has to correspond to the
>architecture of the kernel you have installed. 
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>-- Fernando
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I managed to make alsa work with the necessary patches under kernel 
2.6.12-0.21. Now I can get a latency as low as 11ms with no xruns at all 
with my USB Duo, which is very good! (with the 2.6.10 I was getting 23ms 
and some xruns). Now that I'm not loading the MPU401 module, and I'm 
using my keyboard through the USB port, the system is stable (that was 
the cause of my system freezing as it seems that the mpu401 port 
included in the intel8x0 is not very stable). In order to get alsa to 
work I didn't install or recompiled any kernel-module-alsa. What I did 
is to apply the patches to the alsa code included inside the kernel 
source and recompile the kernel.

What version of alsa is included inside the 2.6.12-0.21 kernel? What is 
the difference between using the alsa modules included in the kernel and 
installing the kernel-module-alsa.2.6.12-0.21? Does installing the 
second one overrides the alsa modules included in the kernel? I don't 
really understand what is the purpose of having the kernel-module-alsa 
as a separate rpm.

sorry for being such a newbie and bothering you with this questions!

Hector