Edgy Backports

Please backport alsa

Bug #73977 reported by Kjetil Kjernsmo
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Bug Description

Hi all!

I'm about to by a laptop with a Realtek ALC883 chip (it happens to be one of the few decent laptops I can find that I can get without an OS), and I see that it can be a bit of a pain.

There is a thread at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202555&page=5
that indicates that alsa 1.0.13, which was released a couple of months ago, has support for it, whereas the alsa in Edgy does not.

Therefore, a backport would be really nice to have! :-)

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Valentin Rocher (bishiboosh) wrote :

Builds in prevu, installs, and run without problems (at least for the moment ;))

+1 for me.

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John Dong (jdong) wrote :

The kernel modules for alsa are in the kernel... your best bet is to talk to a kernel developer about getting the support for your chipset backported to Dapper/Edgy's kernel, which is certainly possible.

The backports team has no way of changing kernel module versions.... backporting the alsa package only backports the userland utilities, which is rather pointless :)

Changed in edgy-backports:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Kjetil Kjernsmo (kjetil) wrote : Re: [Bug 73977] Re: Please backport alsa

On Thursday 30 November 2006 22:45, John Dong wrote:
> The backports team has no way of changing kernel module versions....
> backporting the alsa package only backports the userland utilities,
> which is rather pointless

Uh, right... But the alsa-source package, isn't that for compiling the
thing as a module? Could that be backported and used?

Cheers,

Kjetil
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John Dong (jdong) wrote : Re: [Bug 73977] Please backport alsa

yes, but i don't want to upgrade everyone's user space. I recommend
using prevu to DIY :)

On 11/30/06, Kjetil Kjernsmo <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 November 2006 22:45, John Dong wrote:
> > The backports team has no way of changing kernel module versions....
> > backporting the alsa package only backports the userland utilities,
> > which is rather pointless
>
> Uh, right... But the alsa-source package, isn't that for compiling the
> thing as a module? Could that be backported and used?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kjetil
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> Kjetil Kjernsmo
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> --
> Please backport alsa
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/73977
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