Installing Alsaequal manually

The Reverend

Howdy,

is there a way to manually add alsaequal? I am running a C1+ with the Hifi shield.

I used
pacman -S alsaequal

but it seems alsaequal is not in the repository. I found quite a good guide on how to configure alsaequal to work with mpd. The high frequency responce of the Hifi shield could need a little tweaking. Atm i just use the tone controls of my preamp but i would like to build a new preamp myself and i could leave out the tone control circuitry when there is a software equalizer running.

The Reverend

well i managed to download the Arch snapshot but i am not allowed to malepkg:

==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is not allowed as it can cause permanent,
catastrophic damage to your system.

do i have to add a new user for this or is there a way to get around this?

hondagx35

Hi The Reverend ,

do i have to add a new user for this or is there a way to get around this?

Yes
You have to add a new user (with home directory) and instal "base-devel"

Frank

The Reverend

Thanks for the tip. So far so good, my problem now: where is the asound.conf file so i can add the equalizer device?

The Reverend

Ok, alsaequal is installed and running but i cant add it as output device to the mpd manually.

When i edit the mpd manually a waring screen pops up in the MPD config window and thats it. If i choose edit manually and save the changes the warning window still pops up. If i cant select the equal plugin as output device its not working.

The Reverend

And its finally up, running and working.

I can write a little how to guide if anyone is interested. But this needs some experience with Linux in general and manual file editing. On the other hand you cant really brake anything, you can always reload a working image to the sd card.

System load has not increased at all, next thing i will try isusing the mbeq plugin but for now i am pleased an sound is great.

odroider

I am also really interested in the equalizer.
Please share an instruction how you could install the Alsaequal package.

The Reverend

Here you go:

#3178

ACX

The Reverend wroteHere you go:

#3178

Well done, thank you

odroider

The Reverend wroteHere you go:

#3178

Thank you for the great guide.