On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Phil Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23/07/11 16:13, Phil Lembo wrote: >> >> Thanks Phil! >> >> I just tested both alsa kernel mods in epel-testing and found the newer >> one >> (1.0.24-1) didn't fix the problem for me (my hardware uses the even older >> N10/ICH7 chipset), kmod-alsa-1.0.23-1.el6.elrepo did. Given the advantages >> of kAPI-tracking kmods, I'll be sticking with that for now. >> > > Great. > > Yes, newer is not always better for some packages, especially when they > provide multiple kernel modules (e.g, kmod-alsa and kmod-video4linux), hence > why we like to keep a few versions available.
Just a note to say that you want to exclude the one to keep in yum.conf so that it does not get updated accidentally. Akemi
