alsa confg problems

[tyson80]

Ive been following instructions from alsa-project.org. I get to a certain part and it keeps saying missing destination folder. I'm following the instructions to the letter but I don't know where I'm going wrong. Heres where I get stuck.

cd /usr/src
mkdir alsa
cd alsa
cp /downloads/alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2 (I'm supposed to have a destination folder here i guess but I have no idea what it is supposed to be.)

I'm trying to fix a problem with my Via tech VT8233 sound device.

I'm running suse 10.0 and kde, thx in advance

[gogalthorp]

Just a ./ that is a period followed by a slash

That means the current directory.

also /downloads/ should be the directory pathto where you downloaded the file. What ever that may be.

Note you can also do this part in a GUI window just like it was Windoz

You are just copying a file from one location to another.

[tyson80]

I should have mentioned that im a newb at this and I have no idea what you mean. I tried putting a ./ at the end but it still said no destination folder.

[gogalthorp]

Did you put a space

you are passing cp two parameters the path to the file and the destination directory. This is just like the copy command in DOS.

examp.

cp [filetocopy] [destfolder]

optionally you can give the full path of the destination folder.
./ is just shorthand and means the current directory you are in. also
~ is shorthand for the current users home folder.

[abhishek456]

tyson80 just to provide you some information that i too got VIA VT8233 sound card on my system, and it didn't worked primarily on Opensuse 10.1 and it worked fine after i upgraded my system to Opensuse 10.2