Presence and IntComm WG

[Jeremy George <>]

  Ah, sound.  Thank you.

- Jeremy


On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Bob Riddle wrote:

> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:35:00 -0500
> From: Bob Riddle 
> <>
> Reply-To: 
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> To: 
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> Subject: [wg-pic] installing alsa sound on your Linux box to support
>     sipc.linux
> 
> Note:  you will need root access to the machine to run some/all of these 
> commands!
> Note:  this worked on my Redhat9 laptop
> 
> 1) down load the alsa code from:
>                 
> ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.2.tar.bz2
>                 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.2.tar.bz2
>                 
> ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.2.tar.bz2
>                 
> ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/oss-lib/alsa-oss-1.0.2.tar.bz2
> 
> 2) unpack and build the drivers
>           bunzip2 alsa-driver-1.0.2.tar.bz2
>           tar -xvf alsa-driver-1.0.2.tar
>           cd alsa-driver-1.0.2
>           ./configure
>           make
>           make install
>           ./snddevices
> 
> 3) unpack and build the libraries, utilities, oss-compatibility stuff
>           bunzip2 alsa-lib-1.0.2.tar.bz2;  tar  -xvf 
> alsa-lib-1.0.2.tar;   cd alsa-lib-1.0.2;  ./configure;  make install
>           bunzip2 alsa-utils-1.0.2.tar.bz2;  tar  -xvf 
> alsa-utils-1.0.2.tar;   cd alsa-utils-1.0.2;  ./configure;  make install
>           bunzip2 alsa-oss-1.0.2.tar.bz2;  tar  -xvf 
> alsa-oss-1.0.2.tar;   cd alsa-oss-1.0.2;  ./configure;  make install
> 
> (might want to reboot here ... or not ...)
> 
> 4) run "alsaconf" to find your sound card & configure your 
> /etc/modules.conf file
> 
> 5) run "chkconfig --add alsasound" to add the alsasound to system 
> startup  (/etc/init.d) services
> 
> 6) reboot and give it a try!
> 
> 

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