Re: [alsa-user] Re: ALSA utils "make install" problem

[David M. <mcc...@lo...>]

On Wednesday 23 May 2001 01:45, Hactar wrote:
> The items about which it said "undefined" are defined in
> /usr/include/ncurses/curses.h, which rpm says is part of
> ncurses-devel-5.0-12 (rpm could be wrong about this).

Good morning!  I do have /usr/include/ncurses/curses.h on my system; 
according to RPM, my version of this file came from 
libncurses5-devel-5.2-12mdk.  I don't know why "make install" failed to 
detect the definitions.

Fortunately, I vaguely recalled that Mandrake did have some ALSA packages, 
and I decided to look again and see which ones were there.  Better late than 
never--I found that, although Mandrake (for some unknown reason) doesn't have 
an RPM package with the ALSA drivers, it does have packages with the libs and 
utils.  I've now installed the following packages:

alsa-lib-0.5.10-2mdk
alsa-utils-0.5.10-2mdk
alsa-lib-devel-0.5.10-2mdk

Imaginably, I *may* now be ready to Read The Fine Man Pages (and any other 
relevant documentation), unmute the mixer channels, and hear some sounds.  

Speaking of fine man pages, are there any?  When I entered "man alsa" at the 
command line, I was informed that there weren't.  I have the ALSA HOWTO and 
mini-HOWTO.  Is there any other documentation I need to read so I won't 
needlessly bug the people on this list with easy questions?  :-)  If so, 
thanks in advance for telling me what it is!

David McClamrock