On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 00:51 -0700, Bill McKie wrote:

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.

Yes, I did. See below.

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 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel

The patches are part of the alsa-1.0.14 release driver. I'm not sure which driver you have, as I don't follow the driver/kernel versions, especially at the distro level.

If you wish to maintain your rpm repository, I do have a build environment that will build rpm packages for your distro. It is located at http://members.dsl-only.net/~tdavis/my-build.tar.bz2 . To use it, download and extract it with "tar -jxvf my-build.tar.bz2", then cd into the directory that was extracted. Type (as root) "make && audio_install", and it will build all of the rpm packages for you.