[elrepo] kmod-alsa vs RHEL5.3

[Phil Perry]

On 26/02/13 12:26, Toth Csaba wrote:
> Dear Listmembers,
>
> I tried to install RHEL5.3 to a machine with a motherboard sound card
> not supported by RHEL5.3 (it's an Intel PantherPoint, lspci shows
> 8086:1e20 as device ID). The install CD installed
> kernel-PAE-2.6.18-128.el5.i686.
>
> I thought I might give a try to kmod-alsa found in elrepo.org but
> kmod-alsa requires kernel(rhel5_kernel_u4) and my kernel provides only
> kernel(rhel5_kernel_u3).
> Is there a way to install kmod-alsa to my RHEL5.3? (does rhel5_kernel_u4
> imply it requires RHEL5.4?)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>      Csaba
>
>

Yes, rhel5_kernel_u4 is a kernel symbol that is provided by kernels 
2.6.18-164.el5 and above.

Why are you running such an old kernel? If you want hardware support you 
should start by running the very latest RHEL kernel and see if your 
device is supported under that kernel.

Only then resort to a 3rd party driver from elrepo.

Searching the current RHEL kernels for your device:

$ grep 8086 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 1e20
/lib/modules/2.6.18-308.24.1.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00008086d00001E20sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
/lib/modules/2.6.18-308.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00008086d00001E20sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
/lib/modules/2.6.18-348.1.1.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00008086d00001E20sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel
/lib/modules/2.6.18-348.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00008086d00001E20sv*sd*bc*sc*i* snd-hda-intel

I see your device is supported in RHEL5.8 and RHEL5.9

Update your OS and your device should be supported out of the box.

Thanks

Phil