sound problems

[Suren Karapetyan]

Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Suren Karapetyan 
> <surenkarapetyan at gmail.com <mailto:surenkarapetyan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yeah.. I know. fedora-devel is not a place for discussing bugs but
>     I'll risk.
>
>     As (I hope) many of You already know kernel-2.6.27.9-159 which was
>     pushed as a security update has broken sound on many systems
>     (mostly notebooks) -
>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477954. The reason for
>     this is the new ALSA (1.0.18a).
>
>     There are a lot of "+1"s and "me too"s in bugzilla and if we
>     consider the amount of people who don't know how to report bugs,
>     add those who are on New Year holidays it becomes clear that this
>     affects a lot of our users.
>
>     So users have two choices now:
>     1. Have no sound.
>     2. Stick with 2.6.27.9-134 (this is not as easy as it seems cause
>     the new update will be downloaded and installed automatically).
>
>     I do understand that many developers are on holidays themselves,
>     but I'm also sure this is a REAL problem which should be resolved
>     ASAP.
>     So I just wanted to know what are we going to do about this.
>
>
>  
>
> You can try the latest alsa snapshot available in ATrpms:
>
> http://dl.atrpms.net/f10-x86_64/atrpms/bleeding/alsa-kmdl-2.6.27.9-159.fc10-1.0.18a.snap-74.fc10.x86_64.rpm
>
> http://dl.atrpms.net/f10-i386/atrpms/bleeding/alsa-kmdl-2.6.27.9-159.fc10-1.0.18a.snap-74.fc10.i686.rpm
>
> It has a lot of recent fixes and it is working just fine for me and 
> for others. I also had no sound with kernel 159, before installing 
> this new alsa.
>
> If you remove the rpm later, you go back to the original sound modules 
> (nothing is overwritten).
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> -- 
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ
Still doesn't work.