Fedora Users — Re: HDA Intel sound card problem

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:22 PM, stan <gryt2@xxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:15:43 -0300
Paulo Cavalcanti <promac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > The default alsa drivers version in f11 is 1.0.18. The current
> > version is 1.0.20 and there are lots of intel-hda fixes in the
> > update. The reason f11 is running the old version is because the
> > kernel it is using doesn't support the new drivers.
>
>
> What do you mean by that? I have been using driver 1.0.20
> since I installed F11, a long time ago. There is nothing in kernel
> 2.6.29 that precludes its installation.
>
>
>

When I run the alsa-info.sh script, this is the output I get.

!!Kernel Information
!!------------------

Kernel release: 2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.x86_64
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: x86_64
Processor: x86_64
SMP Enabled: Yes

!!ALSA Version
!!------------

Driver version: 1.0.18a
Library version: 1.0.20
Utilities version: 1.0.20

There is no package for the drivers pulled up in an rpm query. I
assumed that the reason they didn't have the 1.0.20 drivers installed
was an incompatibility with the kernel for some hardware. I can't think
of another reason they wouldn't be using the latest stable version.
They obviously know about it since they have the library and utilities
installed.

Thee driver is a bunch of kernel modules, which are part of the kernel.

Unfortunately, the only time Fedora upgraded the driver
in a kernel, they used the 1.0.18, the buggiest
alsa driver ever. Therefore, they will not do it again. They
will use whatever version comes in the kernel.

--
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ

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