[elrepo-devel] status on kmod-alsa-1.0.21 ?

[Phil Perry]

David Ranch wrote:
> Hello Elrepo-dev,
> 
> I'm curious on the status of the elrepo alsa-1.0.21 package (new version
> is coming per post:
> 
> http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo-devel/2009-September/000065.html
> 
> With both the stock RHEL alsa 1.0.14rc3 and kmod-alsa-1.0.20, the USB
> soundcard's microphone via snd_usb_audio isn't detected (it is seen in
> lsusb).  There are indications that Alsa 1.0.21 might fix this issue:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439759
> 
> --David


Hi David,

I did build kmod-alsa-1.0.21 but it caused a kernel panic on RHEL/CentOS 
5. Seems I wasn't the only one, and I believe ATrpms had the same issue too:

http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-September/021003.html

I was only able to test the intel_hda module so no idea whether other 
modules were working or not, but given the widespread use of intel_hda 
and, due to weak-linking against all kernels installed on the system, I 
felt it best to pull it from the elrepo-testing repo immediately.

I still have the packages here if you'd like to have a play at your own 
risk, although compiling alsa from source against a sacrificial kernel 
would answer your question as to whether 1.0.21 fixes your issue or not.

Regards,

Phil