[elrepo-devel] kmod-alsa update request ...

[Phil Perry]

Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> Hi guys (and girls ;-) )
> 
> I had issues to get the sound working on my Sony Vaio (but i had too 
> much work / not enough free time to have a deeper look) but alsa-project 
> released a new alsa-driver package yesterday (1.0.23)
> I've just bumped the version in your existing kmod-alsa spec (from 
> 1.0.20 to 1.0.23) and i have installed it on my vaio.
> It now works as expected and i have now sound :
> 
> [arrfab at init0 ~]$ rpm -q kmod-alsa
> kmod-alsa-1.0.23-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64
> 
> ;-)
> 

Hi Fabian,

That's excellent news. I had tried to build both 1.0.21 and 1.0.22, but 
both failed to compile (which was fixable with a little effort), but 
then caused kernel panics when I tested locally - hence why I haven't 
updated kmod-alsa since 1.0.20.

I've just pulled the 1.0.23 source and it compiles cleanly against 
RHEL5.5 (which is still using alsa-driver 1.0.14rc3 kernel modules), so 
we're looking good for an update.

Alan - alsa-1.0.23 now contains the snd-ctxfi.ko which I assume is the 
same as kmod-ctxfi? How would you like to handle that - do you plan to 
continue to maintain that as a separate module or would you like to 
deprecate it in favour of the module in kmod-alsa? Once you decide, I'll 
add a Conflicts or Obsoletes to kmod-alsa as appropriate.

Thanks.

Phil