Chapter 14. Pre-Install

Here is a brief run through in pre-install steps.Please refer to a more thorough guide on this if you get confused with this.Assuming that you have dowloaded the necessary alsa drivers into a tmp/ in your home directory .this could be any where in your home directory .here is a typical install session

An Example Session

  1. [gimmy@localhost]~$cd tmp

  2. [gimmy@localhost]~tmp$ bzip2 -d alsa-driver-0.5.xxbz2 | tar xv

  3. [gimmy@localhost]~tmp$cd alsa-driver-0.5.xx

  4. [gimmy@localhost]~tmp/alsa-driver-o.5.xx$ ls

  5. COPYING ChangeLog FAQ INSTALLMakefile
    Makefile.confMakefile.conf.inMakefile.kREADMEREADME.kernel
    Rules.makeRules1.makeTODOWARNINGacinclude.m4
    aclocal.m4cards/cards.configcards.config.inconfig.cache
    config.logconfig.status*configure*configure.incvscompile*
    doc/include/install-sh*kernel/list.txt
    lowlevel/modules/modules.configsnddevices*snddevices.in*
    support/test/utils/version 

  6. [gimmy@localhost]~tmp/alsa-driver-o.5.xx$ ./configure

  7. checking gcc ..........
    checking ......
    creating ./config.status
    creating ........

  8. [gimmy@localhost]~tmp/alsa-driver-o.5.xx$ make

  9. [gimmy@localhost]~tmp/alsa-driver-o.5.xx$su

    1. Password:[1]

  10. [root@localhost]~tmp/alsa-driver-o.5.xx#make install

This is a example of how it looks. For the rest of the process please go back to Quick Install and continue.

Notes

[1]

To install you need to be a super user or root.