[elrepo] kmod-alsa vs RHEL5.3

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
> 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

Yes, updating the system is the best course of action. However, if you
*must* stay with RHEL 5.3 for some reason and still want to install
kmod-alsa, you may want want to try the oldest version available from
our repo :

kmod-alsa-1.0.20-1.el5.elrepo

It may or may not work but you can find that out fairly quickly.

Akemi