[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: initial impressions.

[Simon Bridge]

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 15:11 +1200, Vik Olliver wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 02:57 +1300, Simon Bridge wrote:
> > dmesg is returning unknown symbol errors for snd-hda-intel - what
> > *have* they done...
> 
> Put some of the necessary intel drivers in the blacklist?
> 
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

I asked for a clarification - specifically, will the hsfmodem hda driver
run audio as well as the modem?

Reply (quick too...)


> Hi,
> 
> given how the HDA bus driver is designed in ALSA, we don't have the 
> choice to alter the sound driver at the same time as everything
> related 
> to HDA is in the snd-hda-intel.ko and snd-hda-codec.ko modules.
> 
> Manually updating the kernel headers is probably not a good idea,
> unless 
> you know what you are doing. If the source of the problem comes from
> the 
> Ubuntu package you have installed, note that this is a known issue,
> that 
> package doesn't update the kernel headers so any 3rd party drivers
> that 
> will attempt to built against alsa-driver will probably be broken.
> It's 
> not an issue of our software.
> 
> The HSF built-in HDA modules are based on a recent version of ALSA
> and 
> it will hopefully be possible to run both the modem and the sound
> device 
> with them.

There you go - - -
What if I update the kernel headers?
Won't installing the hsfmodem driver, this way, mean that it will break
on the next update?