[Techtalk] nasty sound using usb-audio and mdk 9.0

[iriXx]

hi conor,
thanks for your reply.. yeah, i tried something similiar like that with 
a different rpm and found it did horrible things and wouldnt compile... 
but it might well work for the alsa ones....
thanks for the tip on tarballs too - thats cool, i didnt know that!

in the end i found my solution - dont uninstall anything, as this is 
risky (i tried the first time and destroyed kde ;-) but make a backup of 
everything under /lib/modules/kernel-number/kernel/sound/ and then erase 
everything in the directory. build alsa from CVS and install, but *dont* 
run ./snddevices - mandrake uses devfs so running snddevices will kill 
alsa dead....

and it works...
dont ask me how or why..... ;-)

bw
m~

> No idea but a suggestion regarding rpms.  Why not grab a mandrake SRPM,
> extract the spec file from it and tweak it to use the alsa-project
> tarballs[0].  It could be as simple as putting the spec file in the SPECS
> dir and the tarball in the SOURCES dir and doing 'rpm -bb
> SPEC/spec-filename'.
> 
> Now you get to use the tarballs you want and retain the package management
> stuff.
> 
> Conor
> 
> [0] Some tarballs come with spec files within them these days.  If so, you
> can 'rpm -tb <tarball>' to build an rpm.


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