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Installing Grub

1.insert Live CD
2.sudo grub
3.find /boot/grub/stage1
4.root "the result of previous"
5.setup (hd0)
6.quit

Upgrading Alsa

Installation :

To do this, we must begin by determining our version of alsa as follows :



cat /proc/asound/version

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20.

To avoid problems during the upgrade of Alsa-utils, we need to stop it with the following command :

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

We must then install the necessary tools to compile along with the kernel headers :

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext xmlto

sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-`uname -r` libncursesw5-dev

Then, we go in our personal folder and download alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils :

cd ~

rm -rf ~/alsa* ~/.pulse*

wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.21.tar.bz2

wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.21a.tar.bz2

wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.21.tar.bz2

After that, we create a new folder for the compilation and
installation of the 3 files. Then, we move the 3 tar files that we just
downloaded in this folder :

sudo rm -rf /usr/src/alsa

sudo mkdir -p /usr/src/alsa

cd /usr/src/alsa

sudo cp ~/alsa* .

Unpack the 3 tar files :

sudo tar xjf alsa-driver*

sudo tar xjf alsa-lib*

sudo tar xjf alsa-utils*

We compile and install alsa-driver :

cd alsa-driver*

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

We compile and install alsa-lib :

cd ../alsa-lib*

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

We compile and install alsa-utils :

cd ../alsa-utils*

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

If like me, you got this error during the last “sudo ./configure” :

checking form.h presence... yes

checking for form.h... yes

checking for new_panel in -lpanelw... no

configure: error: panelw library not found

You will need to add those symbolics links (only if you got the error) and restart the installation from the last “sudo ./configure” :


sudo ln -s libpanelw.so.5 /usr/lib/libpanelw.so

sudo ln -s libformw.so.5 /usr/lib/libformw.so

sudo ln -s libmenuw.so.5 /usr/lib/libmenuw.so

sudo ln -s libncursesw.so.5 /lib/libncursesw.so

Then, we remove the 3 tar files in our personal folder that are not anymore necessary :

rm -f ~/alsa-driver*

rm -f ~/alsa-lib*

rm -f ~/alsa-utils*

Then, just restart your computer and your alsa version should be 1.0.21!

You can verify that you have now indeed have this version of alsa :

cat /proc/asound/version

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.

Compiled on Oct 15 2009 for kernel 2.6.31-14-generic (SMP)

Just to be sure everything is well configured, execute this command :

sudo alsaconf

and reboot again!

Installing rpm on deb base

sudo alien -k file_name.rpm

Compiling Kernel

make menuconfig
make
make modules
make modules-install
mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-(...)
make install
update-grub

Adding Windows to grub

title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

or

menuentry "Windows XP" {
set root=(hd0,3)
chainloader +1
}

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