I've been running FC6 on a Gateway MP-6954 laptop computer since Oct-2006, and have been hoping that the regular FC6 yum updates will eventually provide an alsa update that will support the MP-6954's sound hardware. So far, that hasn't happened, and my system has never had sound capability.
Current system stuff:
uname -r 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6
rpm -q -a | grep -i alsa alsa-lib-1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc6 alsa-lib-devel-1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc6 alsa-utils-1.0.14-0.2.rc1.fc6
cat /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth0 sky2 alias scsi_hostadapter ahci remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel options snd cards_limit=8 alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel index=0 alias snd-card-7 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=7
alsamixer (v1.0.14rc1) reports: Card: HDA Intel Chip: SigmaTel ID 7634
Some Internet googling showed that Tobin Davis released a source level Sigmatel STAC9250 (7634) test patch 6 (gateway-mp6954.patch.6) that appears to address this problem back in December 2006.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg05113.html
Is this gateway-mp6954.patch.6 still appropriate to be used on my FC6 system? (My FC6 sys has all the current yum updates applied.)
If this patch is appropriate, should I first remove the existing alsa rpms before installing alsa from source with the patch. I.e. should I remove all 3 packages:
alsa-lib-1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc6 alsa-lib-devel-1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc6 alsa-utils-1.0.14-0.2.rc1.fc6
Will subsequent FC6 yum updates involving alsa then disturb the patched alsa?
Thanks much, Bill