On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Don Bossung <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: [ATrpms-users] CentOS kernel upgrade=no pvr150 cards > > From: Paulo Cavalcanti <[email protected]> > > Date: Mon, January 25, 2010 1:52 am > > To: John Robinson <[email protected]> > > Cc: Don Bossung <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:30 AM, John Robinson < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 24/01/2010 23:58, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > > > > >> This is how I do: > > >> > > >> wget > > >> > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/CentOS/module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.42.el5.x86_64.rpm > > >> > > >> sudo rpm -e module-init-tools --nodeps > > >> > > >> sudo rpm -ivh module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.42.el5.i386.rpm > > >> > > > > > > I think rather than uninstalling, I'd do > > > > > > sudo rpm -Uvh --oldpackage > module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.42.el5.i386.rpm > > > > > > (or x86_64 as appropriate). > > > > > > > > Sometime I use the force option: > > > > --force > > Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and > --oldpackage. > > > > > > The problem is that it only replaces files. It does not delete files from > > the old package that do not exist in the new package any more. > > > > > > -- > > Paulo Roma Cavalcanti > > LCG - UFRJ > > I tired the recommended process (removing the current module-init-tools > and replacing with same from 5.3 as directed) and still don't have any > video devices in /dev. If you have other ideas, cool, but if not, thats > ok too as I imagine this will catch up sometime. > > Unfortunately, I think the way out is RHEL6. I have not been able to present a new alsa-driver or video4linux which works for RHEL5 for a long time. A few more RedHat kernel patches and probably even the current versions will not work any more. You can always use whatever driver they supply in the kernel (that is, removing video4linxux), if that works for you. -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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