Re: [Alsa-user] Problems installing ALSA
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From: Alexander D. <Ale...@as...> - 2007-05-03 14:15:27
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Oh, sorry, I didn't get your point, which is to yum update my machine basically.... Well, I did this, and a lot of packages has been updated (hopefully correct). So I suppose a recent alsda-driver or whatever have been sucessfully installed? A "yum list | grep alsa" returns: yum list | grep alsa alsa-lib.i386 1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc5 installed alsa-lib-devel.i386 1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc5 installed alsa-utils.i386 1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc5 installed alsa-oss.i386 1.0.11-1.fc5 extras alsa-oss-devel.i386 1.0.11-1.fc5 extras alsa-tools.i386 1.0.10-2.fc5 extras alsamixergui.i386 0.9.0-0.3.rc1.fc5 extras balsa.i386 2.3.14-1.fc5 extras kadu-alsa_sound.i386 0.5.0-2.fc5 extras Also do I need to restart anything? Or are the libraries, codes etc. just updated and ready to use? ALSO: I tried to listen to a wav-file using "aplay" and got the following error-message: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:545: audio open error: Device or resource busy What to do now? I actually need sound capabilities for a VoiP call in 45 minutes.... Cheers Alex On 5/3/07, John Haxby <jc...@th...> wrote: > > Alexander Dietz wrote: > > and what exactly should I yum update? I tried "yum update alsa" but > > this did not work. > It doesn't need any parameters, just "yum update" and say "y" when > prompted. You can just update the kernel and alsa stuff ("yum update > kernel\* alsa\*" I think) but I really wouldn't recommend it unless > you've been installing lots of replacement software with no regard to > what was already installed. > > I'm guessing that you've never updated this machine so you'll have lots > of patches to install. It'll take a while :-) But it's a good thing -- > there are quite a few security fixes in among it all. > > jch > > |