HP notebook Debian compiler sound card driver method

After installing the Debian system on the HP notebook, the sound has a problem, most of which is the sound card driver failure, then you can re-install the compiled sound card driver to solve the problem, the following small series will give you Describe in detail how Debian compiles and installs the sound card driver.

HP notebook when bought, installed Debian 5, often encounter two problems:

a wireless network card driver is not installed, one is & ldquo; you can put on headphones Listen to the song, but the speaker can't make a sound.

The second problem, mostly due to the low version of the sound card driver version of Debian 5, so just download the latest sound card driver, compile and install to solve the problem.

The steps are as follows:

1. Go to the alsa homepage and download the latest driver and extract it to the current directory

alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2

alsa-lib-1.0.21a.tar.bz2

alsa-utils-1.0.21.tar.bz2

$ pwd

/home/c-aries /download/alsa

$ ls

alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2 alsa-lib-1.0.21a.tar.bz2 alsa-utils-1.0.21.tar. Bz2

$ tar xf alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2

$ tar xf alsa-utils-1.0.21.tar.bz2

$ tar xf Alsa-lib-1.0.21a.tar.bz2

$ ls -F

alsa-driver-1.0.21/alsa-lib-1.0.21a/alsa-utils-1.0.21 /

alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2 alsa-lib-1.0.21a.tar.bz2 alsa-utils-1.0.21.tar.bz2

$

2. Install the required packages, close the sound card,

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext xmlto linux-headers-`uname -r` libncursesw5-dev

$ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop
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