HowTo Question: Updating ALSA from 0.5 to 0.9

ALSA drivers (alsa-driver-0.5.12a) have been part of my config since
about kernel 2.2.18. Everything works fine.

Now that I'm up to kernel 2.4.21 I see that ALSA 0.5 is deprecated, so
I d/l'd the alsa-driver-0.9.5 tarball. I can run the 'configure' script
OK, but 'make' gives an error, complaining about some '.h files.' I
also see that the old 'snd_' prefix for ALSA modules have changed.

It seems that I need to remove the ALSA .h files from the kernel
include tree, and modify my modules.conf file as well.

Question: is there an ALSA Update HowTo somewhere? Maybe I should just
forget the update, since "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Suggestions?
HaroldWho
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:34:02 GMT, lobotomy wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:
> In <slrnbiamit.qm.hlarons@Beagle.mylocal.net>, HaroldWho wrote:
>
>> ALSA drivers (alsa-driver-0.5.12a) have been part of my config since
>> about kernel 2.2.18. Everything works fine.
>>
>> Now that I'm up to kernel 2.4.21 I see that ALSA 0.5 is deprecated, so I
>> d/l'd the alsa-driver-0.9.5 tarball. I can run the 'configure' script
>> OK, but 'make' gives an error, complaining about some '.h files.' I also
>> see that the old 'snd_' prefix for ALSA modules have changed.
>>
>
> Maybe its not finding the kernel headers? In 0.9 it looks in the
> directory linked to /lib/modules/$version/kernel/build. If this isn't
> where your kernel headers are it won't find them, and you should specify
> the proper path instead. I don't think the presence of old ALSA headers
> should give it any trouble -- it should be looking at its own versions of
> those files, I have installed successive versions of 0.9 over each other
> without trouble, although not done the 0.5 => 0.9 switch (I ended up doing
> a complete reinstall between when I was using 0.5 and 0.9).
>
> Once you have it compiled, most of your configuration should still work,
> its just the names have changed. So all of the modules named
> snd-card-XXXX in old versions are now just snd-XXXX, and parameters
> starting in snd_ have that removed now.

Thanks for the tips. I solved the compile problem after reading the Makefile
(Doh). 'make compile' runs to completion; 'make' has problems. Under 0.5
'make' worked fine.

HaroldWho
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