[System Enablement] New releases: wifi-ap=10 pulseaudio=8.0-3

[Simon Fels]

On 04.01.2017 15:39, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> On Mi, 2017-01-04 at 14:16 +0000, Jamie Bennett wrote:
>>  
>>> pulseaudio:
>>>
>>> This is the first release of the snap. We currently only support
>>> running
>>> pulseaudio in system mode and with that only support Ubuntu Core
>>> devices.
>>> Installing on classic desktop devices is possible but not yet
>>> supported.
>>>
>>> Please note that we require a kernel with ALSA support enabled
>>> which is not
>>> yet the case for all reference devices like the Raspberry Pi 2 or
>>> 3.
>>
>> Is there a reason why we do not have ALSA support enabled for these
>> platforms?
>>
> 
> well, we surely do have the right modules enabled ...
> snd-bcm2835.ko is definitely there in the rpi kernel package ... 
> 
> but snd.ko seems to be compiled in ... i assume this combo wont work,
> my guess would be that either both have to be compiled in or both have
> to be modules ...
> 
> (i'll look into this and talk to paolo about it)

Thanks.

When I looked at it the hardware specific module snd-bcm2835.ko wasn't
automatically loaded and loading it didn't change much (nothing listed
in /proc/asound/cards).

regards,
Simon