Re: video4linux - rhel 5.6

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Axel Thimm <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 10:02 -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > The other versions can be fixed in a similar way, I guess.
> > If people at RedHat continue to produce these hybrid versions,
> > it will be very difficult to maintain the support in the future ...
>
> It's been that way forever with RHEL. There are newer features that are
> backported, so the kernels are really a mix of different kernel
> versions. The older the RHEL release becomes the more backporting and
> mixing you will see.
>
> > I almost fixed alsa, but since my rhel5 sound is working with
> > the stock driver, I decided to invest on rhel6 for a while.
> > There are so many packages missing there ...
>
> Could you share whatever you have for alsa?
>
>
Sure. Maybe I can finish it today.

The problem is that my daughter's computer was running F10 until yesterday,
when I replaced its HD, which was failing. I put another one running EL6,
and had to make a lot of tweaks. One of them is using an alsa-driver
that fixes the input (blue) connector of her sound card:

http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/srpms/alsa-driver-1.0.22.1-84.el6.src.rpm

It is the same version as before, with the blue line in patch adapted one
more time.

By the way, yum-plugin-kmdl is not available for RHEL6...

Thanks.


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ