How to update alsa driver manually

antonio montagnani antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 06:57:55 UTC 2007


2007/10/11, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 21:48 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > I've had no need to update manually the alsa driver as the soundcard on my 2
> > machines works fine, but for the sake of experience I want to know how to
> > upgrade an alsa driver for my current kernel on Fedora7.
> >
> > My latest kernel is 2.6.22.9-91.fc7, and I have the kernel headers for this
> > kernel.
>
> I didn't think that alsa was kernel dependent? Just yum -y update alsa*
> I would think. YMMV, Ric
>
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Nigel wants to download drivers from alsa website, so they have to be
re-compiled and installed on every different kernel you wish to run

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