Re: [Alsa-user] Upgrading Alsa on RHEL without recompiling kernel?

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On 11/3/05, Gianluca Cecchi
<gia...@am...> wrote:
> My home PC is based on CentOS 4, that is a clone of  rh el, plus some
> modules from DAG repository
>  for audio/video mgmt.
>  I followed hints at http://alsa.opensrc.org/AlsaBuild2.6

I wasn't aware of this page, at first it looks much closer to what I'm afte=
r
(everything I found on the web was pretty old and talked about 2.4/2.2
kernels).

Actually since I sent my question I startted from fresh - got the kernel
source package installed (turned out that RH changed the package name
yet again) and even got Alsa 1.0.10rc2 to compile and install.

The problem I'm facing now is that insmod complains about some
"Wrong module format" (paraphrased, I'm writing from home now).
I found many refferences to this error which explain that my modules
package is too old - but as far as I can tell I have the latest one for
RHEL 4.

So this is were I'm stuck now.

> but i've not finished yet.
>  I created the sources for 2.6.9-22 kernel tree (the one shipped with rh =
el
> 4 U2).
>  And then I compiled kernel enabling audio but deselecting alsa, modifyin=
g
> default

That's the kind of thing I'd like to avoid - I'd rather keep the kernel to =
the
control of the centralized home-built system configuration scripts.

Thanks for your input.

--Amos

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