Comment 32 for bug 184314

on ubuntu 8.04, amilo li 1705.

firstly i installed build-essential and xmlto with aptitude in terminal.

sudo apt-get install build-essential xmlto

i installed alsa-driver with patch (with modifications for via). bz2. with sudo ./configure after that i did make, and then make install.

 i installed the 1.0.18 release. then i did

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/sound

run an 'ls' command from that directory

i saw the list of folders, named like acore, drivers, i2c, isa, misc, pci, pcmcia, soc, synth, and usb. then

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ubuntu/sound

 sudo ln -s ../../kernel/sound/ alsa-driver

after:

cd alsa-driver

then:

ls

then rebooted. nothing happend. then i did:

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ubuntu/sound

then:

sudo rm -r alsa-driver
then:

sudo ln -s ../../kernel/sound/ alsa-driver

then

cd alsa-driver

and ls

then reboot.

i think these are the steps i did. anyway, it's really terrible thing with these drivers for alsa. it's second time i made it work, but last time it caused trouble with the network dhcp. i could get ip from network. some error appeared, though my headphones were working. last time i also followed the instructions from alsa website> "is my soundcard supported"> via>8237a . they have some list of instructions. but the other alsa libraries (alsa-utils, alsa-lib) caused some errors i couldn't descipher (while installing i refer, not only the dhcp issue that occured afterwards), so only a simple driver installation solved my problem.