On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, William Hooper wrote: > Krikket said: > > 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... > > Then you definitely want the kernel-source package: > [whooper@kenny whooper]$ sudo /usr/sbin/up2date --dry-run kernel-source I got some different results, but equally educational. 1> I don't know how you got it to check locally for things... In my case it checked the 'net at large. (I'm assuming the redhat.com...) 2> It found the kernal and source for 2.4.22.1-2125. I'm running kernal 2.4.22-1.2115. I don't want to upgrade the kernal, because I've found when I do, I get odd behavior with things lik the num-lock key. Even if the kernal isn't running. (Okay, I discovered this on the desktop, not the laptop... But isn't it even more likely to go wonky on the laptop?) > Notice that be default the package is skipped so you must use "-f" with > up2date. Thank you. I didn't know that! > >> 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.) > > On the other hand, I see no showstopper bugs in bugzilla saying it doesn't > work at all. Maybe it works for some people then. I don't know. > What output do you get when you run redhat-config-packages from a > terminal? What version of redhat-config-packages are you running? Err, what's that, and how do I check? It's a fresh install (less than a week old) and one of the first things I did was to run "yum update". (And then I removed the kernal that was installed.)\ I may be a relative newbie, but I am catching on... (And have years of Unix (user) experience to draw on...) Krikket
