ALSA on Dell Inspiron 8000 (was Re: [lug] Problems with SuSe 8.0 on Toshiba Tecra 8100)

[Andrew Gilmore]

There are about a million Dell laptop pages out there, and at least 35 
from linux-laptop.net on the Inspiron 8000, so I am not sure how much I 
have to add.

However, if this helps:

ALSA on the I8K was a matter of getting the latest distributions (I've 
used 4 or 5 versions now) from the alsa project page. I've not tried 
doing an rpm for this, which may be bad, but...

The alsa-driver package is needed first. To compile,

/configure --with-cards=dummy,virmidi,maestro3

was the conf line I used. You probably only need the maetro3 card 
specified to get sound to work.

make and make install.

then alsa-libs, make and make install, no special configure options.

then alsa-tools, alsa-utils, and alsa-oss can be optionally used. 
alsa-oss is quite useful for audio tools that understand oss/free i/o 
but not alsa.

There is a fair amount of mucking around in modules.conf, as someone 
said, but it is well explained, I thought. More is also needed for oss 
compatibility.

This is all under Redhat, versions 7.1-8.0.

Questions?

Andrew

John Karns wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Andrew Gilmore said:
> 
> 
>>I've been using the ALSA drivers for sound in my Dell Inspiron 8000 for
>>a couple of years now. They actually work.  :)
>>
>>The compilation process is not that great, but installation was fairly
>>straightforward.
>>
>>I've successfully done DVDs and sound recording (although primitive CLI
>>stuff) on the laptop as well.
>>
>>Andrew
> 
> 
> Maybe I'll take another stab at it in the future.  I don't know that much
> about alsa other than it has a few apps that make it more suitable for use
> in for some multimedia applications.
> 
> I'd be all hears to find out any particaulars about alsa on the I8k  :)
> It's been a while since I tried it - but I don't remember compiling from
> source, I think I just tried using the SuSE supplied pkg.
> 
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> John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net
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