On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, William Hooper wrote: > Krikket said: > > > And the really embarassing question... Does anyone have any thoughts on > > how to install the kernal source? apt/synaptic doesn't seem to have it, > > Are you looking to build your own kernel or kernel modules? You need the > kernel-source package. I'm trying to get the alsa drivers running on my laptop, so I can have sound. The RPM doesn't seem to be cutting it for me, and the chipset is definately supported... > Are you wanting to look at the patches that Red Hat has added to the > kernel.org kernel? Then you need the kernel src.rpm package. > > > and the add/install program feature is just broken.. > > Without more detail, this is a completely worthless statement. If the system gave me any useful error messages, I would have included them. It doesn't. I get a generic "install failed" type of message with no rhyme, reason, or anything else of use. I felt it wasn't necessary to spell that out, because I understood that it was generally understood that the add/remove features is pretty severely broken in Fedora... (Badly enough that I don't know anyone who's succesfully installed *anything* using this method.) Krikket
