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Strange thing with ALSA drivers on MD
« on: August 22, 2007, 09:40:08 am »
HI,

I posted the same issue on Plutohome forum but it's quiet a bit now. So, maybe somebody can help me solve my problem with ALSA drivers and SPDIF in my Plutohome 2.0.0.44 installation.

I setup MD based on Asus M2N Deluxe mother board. It has built-in sound including SPDIF but by some reason only analog was recognized by system. The same sound card works fine in the core/hybrid. I suspect that this problem is related with different version of ALSA. Because on the core/hybrid ALSA is 1.0.12:
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dcerouter_19548:~# cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.12.
Compiled on Mar  1 2007 for kernel 2.6.16.20-pluto-2-686.

but on MD - 1.0.11rc2:

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moon153:~# cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc2 (Wed Jan 04 08:57:20 2006 UTC).

I compared ALSA packages and they the same for both. So, i have no idea how to upgrade ALSA drivers on MD via apt.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated!
Michael Stepanov,
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Re: Strange thing with ALSA drivers on MD
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2007, 10:54:38 am »
The problem is related with different versions of ALSA in the package for single core processor and SMP. I changed MD architecture to 686 and rebuilt its image to have kernel for single core processor. After that the sound card was recognized correctly.
Michael Stepanov,
My setup: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/User:Nite_man#New_setup
Russian LinuxMCE community: http://linuxmce.ru