Advanced Linux Sound Architecture(ALSA)
ALSA LATEST VERSION (1.0.21)
First we need to knwo what is the version installed in our system.
open terminal and run this command
cat /proc/asound/version
output shows like this .
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18rc3.
This is the default ALSA version comes with ubuntu 9.04 .
for installing the new we run the commands first on terminal
1.we need to install the tools
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext xmlto
sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-`uname -r`
then download these package form the net
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.21.tar.bz2
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.21.tar.bz2
Then we need to create a dirctory folder name called alsa
sudo mkdir -p /usr/src/alsa
mv alsa* /usr/src/alsa
cd /usr/src/alsa
sudo cp ~/alsa*
Unpack the drivers one by one
sudo tar xjf alsa-driver*
sudo tar xjf alsa-lib*
sudo tar xjf alsa-utils*
Now we are ready to install the ALSA
first we need to Install alsa driver.
cd alsa-driver*
sudo ./configure –with-cards=hda-intel –with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo make
sudo make install
Seconad we need to Install alsa-lib
cd ../alsa-lib*
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
third we need to Install alsa-utils
cd ../alsa-utils*
sudo ./configure
After this command it will show some errors like below
checking form.h presence… yes
checking for form.h… yes
checking for new_panel in -lpanelw… no
configure: error: panelw library not found
on the teminal run this below commands .This will solve the error messages
sudo ln -s libpanelw.so.5 /usr/lib/libpanelw.so
sudo ln -s libformw.so.5 /usr/lib/libformw.so
sudo ln -s libmenuw.so.5 /usr/lib/libmenuw.so
sudo ln -s libncursesw.so.5 /lib/libncursesw.so
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
Now we are done .just we need to reboot the system .
After reboot we need to check the ALSA driver version with this below command
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Compiled on Aug 31 2009 for kernel 2.6.28-15-generic (SMP).
Wallaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DONE 🙂
