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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:23:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: ALSA/sound compatibilty package for older kernels
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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       Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>,
       "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>,
       Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> At Tue, 26 May 2009 01:53:07 -0700,
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> In spirit with the compat-wireless-2.6 stable releases [1], here is an
>> initial attempt at compat-sound-2.6 [2] which allows you to compile
>> and install the latest ALSA/sound drivers on kernels >= 2.6.27.
>
> Well, the alsa-driver tarball can install the drivers on older
> kernels, even on 2.2 and 2.4 kernels :)
>
> The latest snapshot tarball is found at:
>    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz

Oh nice :) I did not realize.

  Luis