Howto Install Latest Alsa Drivers

First of all, change to your home directory, as all the instructions will asume that you will work from there

cd ~

Install nessesary dependencies

su
yum install automake autoconf libtool kernel-devel ncurses-devel gettext-devel

Now, let's download the latest ALSA project files

rsync -avz --delete --exclude=.hg* rsync://alsa.alsa-project.org/hg alsa

First thing we are going to do is to compile and install the ALSA drivers

cd alsa/alsa-driver 
./hgcompile
make install

Now, let's compile and install ALSA libraries

cd ../alsa-lib
./hgcompile
make install

Also, compile and install ALSA utils

cd ../alsa-utils
./hgcompile
make install

Now, let's insert the modules in to the kernel

/sbin/modprobe snd-intel8x0
/sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss
/sbin/modprobe snd-mixer-oss
/sbin/modprobe snd-seq-oss

Last thing we want to do is to is to clean up the mess we have done

cd ../..
rm alsa -Rfv

That's it!
You may want to check if your sound is not mutes, as it is by default, before reporting bugs...

Sorry for possibly a n00b q., but is there any advantage to doing this over letting Smart or Yast install/update the packages for you?

Sorry for possibly a n00b q., but is there any advantage to doing this over letting Smart or Yast install/update the packages for you?
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Well, you might NEED the newest possible version, before package will be created for Smart/Yast.

First thing we are going to do is to compile and install the ALSA drivers

cd alsa/alsa-driver 
./hgcompile
make install

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Trying this on a brand new installation and got the following:

<blockquote>copying file alsa-kernel/drivers/mpu401/mpu401.c
patching file mpu401.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 30 (offset 2 lines).
Hunk #2 FAILED at 46.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 64.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 149.
Hunk #5 succeeded at 300 (offset 53 lines).
3 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file mpu401.c.rej
make[2]: *** [mpu401.c] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/alsa/alsa-driver/drivers/mpu401'
make[1]: *** [_sfdep_mpu401] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/alsa/alsa-driver/drivers'
make: *** [dep] Error 1</blockquote>

Any ideas what has gone wrong?

hello,

Is guide work with any card of sound ?

thanks a lot