>>From looking at the date I'd guess it comes from up2date, which is >included in planet.
yeah, but you can't use up2date on a machine not connected to the internet. so a machine configured without being updated (i.e. not really 8.0 anymore) doesn't have glibc 2.3. i supposed RH are defining 8.0 as "8.0 plus any updates we say are part of 8.0 ...". sigh. i rebuilt the RPMs from nando's SRPMs. and now i just found out that i have a brand new Hammerfall DSP with a revision number not recognized by the driver. this means i would have to install the entire kernel source RPM (27MB!) from the planet, plus the alsa kernel SRPM, edit the source code, and then rebuild ALSA (you can't rebuild ALSA without the relevant kernel source installed). sigh again, doubled. still, at least i can justify being paid to do this :) and i have to say that the Linux Audio Systems splash screens for Grub and for GDM look pretty nice! i get a warm feeling inside seeing these things on such a superb machine :) i guess i should get it connected to the net, and run up2date as well, eh? --p
