upgrade alsa

[maspai]

how to upgrade alsa (1.0.24/1.0.25)? 13.37 has 1.0.23, although it says 1.0.24 in distrowatch . why i want to upgrade, one of them is because headphone jack doesn't work properly, sound keeps coming out from both my acer aspire 522 netbook speaker while headphone jack is plugged in. thanks.

[Shador]

13.37 has 1.0.23, although it says 1.0.24 in distrowatch

But distrowatch is right:

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# sget -search alsa
alsa-lib-1.0.24.1-x86_64-1 [inst=Ja]: alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture library)
alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-x86_64-1 [inst=Ja]: alsa-utils (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture utilities)

[maspai]

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cat /proc/asound/version

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Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23

. isn't it version of alsa?
btw, how to solve the sound problem? sound still comes out from netbook speaker after plugging in headphone.

[thenktor]

To view the version of your installed ALSA packages run: ls -l /var/log/packages/alsa*
What sound hardware do you have? Run: /sbin/lspci | grep -i audio

You probably need some parameters to your ALSA modules to change the behaviour.

[gapan]

Read this thread: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3703
and the ones I'm linking to from in there.

[Shador]

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cat /proc/asound/version

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Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23

. isn't it version of alsa?
btw, how to solve the sound problem?

Yes, probably that's the right version. But your system is most probably not in sync with the repository (which distrowatch generally references), i.e. your system is not up-to-date.

[maspai]

To view the version of your installed ALSA packages run: ls -l /var/log/packages/alsa*
What sound hardware do you have? Run: /sbin/lspci | grep -i audio

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lspci | grep -i audio

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00:01.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 1314
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)

I think the first is for HDMI and last is the soundcard.

[maspai]

i searched and tried creating alsa.conf in my /etc/modprobe.d/ containing:

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options snd-hda-intel model=olpc-xo-1_5,dell-vostro

in kernel.org there's list of snd-hda-intel models, so i tried model above. after reboot, my headphone works as expected and no more sound from netbook speaker while using headphone. thanks guys.