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doh
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 Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 7:33 pm Post subject: Why isn't Alsa .9.x not default? |
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Even on the Alsa website says that .5.x is depreciated.
When can we expect some .9.x support? I can't `emerge alsa-oss` without alsa-lib .9.x.
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rachaef
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| Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
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#Tod <tod@gentoo.org> - upgraded versions of all things alsa.
#Package masking initially because libsound.so.1 is no longer
#supplied with alsa-lib (it is libsound.so.2 now). This requires
#massive recompiles if user had previous versions of alsa installed.
#Don't want any unwary user to merge these packages, because almost
#everthing to do with sound will break until recomiled. Don't know
#if a compatibility ln would suffice.
>=media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-sound/alsa-tools-0.9.0_beta10-r1
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So it's actually there and supported, but if you unmask and emerge it you'll have to recompile everything that uses it 
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doh
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| Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| rachaef wrote: | /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
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#Tod <tod@gentoo.org> - upgraded versions of all things alsa.
#Package masking initially because libsound.so.1 is no longer
#supplied with alsa-lib (it is libsound.so.2 now). This requires
#massive recompiles if user had previous versions of alsa installed.
#Don't want any unwary user to merge these packages, because almost
#everthing to do with sound will break until recomiled. Don't know
#if a compatibility ln would suffice.
>=media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_beta10
>=media-sound/alsa-tools-0.9.0_beta10-r1
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So it's actually there and supported, but if you unmask and emerge it you'll have to recompile everything that uses it
rachaef |
If I comment those lines will it be fetched? o_O
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rachaef
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| Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Sure as hell  |
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tod
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| Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
You have two options.
1. use the low level ebuild comand, i.e.
'ebuild media-sound/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-0.9_rc1.ebuild merge'
2. or as was said, commented out the alsa-0.9 entries in the package.mask. (your change will be overwritten every 'emerge rsync')
Note: After you merge alsa-libs-0.9, check and see if there is a symlink from libasound.so.1 to libasound.so.2. That trick saved me from having to recompile some apps. I think the ebuild should do it for you.
Note2: some sound apps, will not work regardless of the symlink above period, as the have not been updated yet up-stream to work with 0.9. see mailing lists (particularly post by Spider for more info)
Incidentally, I'm the 'Tod' from the package.mask entry.
hth
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Al'Capone
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| Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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a word of caution:
You only have the rc1 for the alsa-driver
everything else is beta 0.9.10 soo....if you emerge utils or tools or oss IT WILL uninstall the rc1 driver and install the beta driver which sucks
my advise download from Alsa and install manually, however another word of caution Libasound1.so IS NOT INCLUDED so you will have some issues if you dont know what you are doing.
in conclusion:
If your system is up an running and everything works including sound and you are a bit green on the manual configuration department (no pun intended we are all learning) leave it the hell alone !!! until the gentoo developers unmask it and come up with a work around for it.
if like me you like to mess with things to get it to work on your own then by all means go ahead and mess with it
like my grandfather use to say "you want to go fly fishing??.....then you are gonna get your ass wet ! 
Cheers[/b]
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