On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:48 AM, John Terry <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a rather silly question -- is the following set of packages a legit
> way to get a more up-to-date ALSA install?
>
>
> #> rpm -qa | grep alsa
> alsa-driver-1.0.22.1-82.el5      {from atrpms-testing}
> alsa-kmdl-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus-1.0.22.1-82.el5  {from
> atrpms-testing}
> alsa-utils-1.0.17-1.el5   {from centos base}
> alsa-lib-1.0.17-1.el5    {from centos base}
>
> #> uname -a
> Linux pluto 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 18:52:33 EST
> 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
>
> I'd expect that there'd be a dependancy to also bring alsa-lib and
> alsa-utils up to 1.0.22*, but isn't the case.
>
> It's not working (of course), but, I thought I'd double check that I'm not
> making a really stupid assumption before raising the issue on the alsa
> forum.
>
> Thanks,
>
>  ~john
>
>

Yes, this is the latest alsa driver for rhel5.

Unfortunately, either alsa-driver 1.0.21 or 1.0.22 do not work
when installed on rhel5 for me, and I am still using 1.0.20. With 1.0.21, I
had a kernel panic, but with 1.0.22 it just does not work.

There is no alsa-lib 1.0.22 for rhel5 on ATrpms, but I do not know whether
it would make any difference. At least, it did not for 1.0.21, because I
created and tried it some time ago.

Rhel5 has a very old and highly patched kernel, and each time it is more
difficult
to maintain modules for it. Rhel 5.5 is coming out, but the solution is
waiting for rhel6, in my opinion.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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