Re: Problem configuring sound card with alsa on debian

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:58:25 +0530
Divick Kishore <divick.kishore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You are not doing anything wrong; the driver was removed from the Debian
kernels. Here are the relevant snippets from the changelog:

linux-2.6 (2.6.23-1) unstable; urgency=low

* Remove binary only firmwares for:
- Cirrus Logic (Sound Fusion) CS4280/CS461x/CS462x/CS463x

* Disable now broken drivers:
- Cirrus Logic (Sound Fusion) CS4280/CS461x/CS462x/CS463x

Fri, 30 Nov 2007

Just to state the obvious, in case the OP doesn't realize it: the
solution, if your principles allow it, is to get the vanilla sources
from upstream and build your own kernel.


By upstream you mean kernels older than 2.6.23-1? Could you please point me
in the right direction to build custom kernel with support for these
drivers?

No, by upstream I mean a kernel downloaded directly from kernel.org.
What Florian has pointed out is that the necessary driver has been
removed by *Debian* devs from the kernels that *Debian* ships, due to
Debian's specific policies, but upstream kernels still contain them.

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