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?
>
>
I have a version that builds here:

http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/srpms/alsa-driver-1.0.23-84.el5.src.rpm

I did not test it, though. Anything above 1.0.20 always froze my rhel5 boot
.

But is has a good chance of working ... (I did not bump the release).


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ