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brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

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Upgrade to alsa 1.0.22.1

So, I want to get Audio-over-HDMI working with my nVidia G210 graphics card.  I found a wiki that looks extremely promising.

step one is to upgrade to alsa 1.0.22.1 (.33 kernel runs 1.0.21), but I'm a bit hesitant about manually compiling from the alsa-snapshot git repo.  i checked the aur hoping for an alsa-git but no such luck*.  being a kernel-mod, i'm not sure i could figure out how to make a PKGBUILD myself, though that'd be ideal.

the wiki links to an upgrade script written for ubuntu (of course).  i'd imagine it would work on arch, but wanted to get some feed back before i (read its source and) run it.

  -- has anyone done this?
  -- do you have a better way?
  -- i understand it's risky, but would reinstalling kernel26 and some alsa-* packages restore my system?

*if anyone would like to make a PKGBUILD to upgrade alsa to the latest snapshot, that'd be _awesome_.

Last edited by brisbin33 (2010-04-28 20:18:03)

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Themaister

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From: Trondheim, Norway

Registered: 2008-07-21

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Re: Upgrade to alsa 1.0.22.1

Installing new ALSA kernel drivers isn't harder than a ./configure --with-cards=<your card(s)> && make && sudo make install from the alsa-drivers snapshot. Reinstalling kernel26 should restore the drivers.

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