Updating kernel source with yum, How?

[Graeme Nichols]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 02:56, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 07:32, Rick Stevens wrote:
<snip>
> > 
> > Hello Rick, an update on my first reply to this post:
> > 
> > The snd-intel8x0 is no longer listed in the output of lsmod. When I
> > tried to modprobe soundcore it worked OK. when I tried to modprobe
> > snd-intel8x0 I got the following:
> > 
> > [root at barney mpu401]# modprobe soundcore
> > [root at barney mpu401]# modprobe snd-intel8x0
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/snd.ko': No such file or
> > directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq-device.ko': No
> > such file or directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/snd-rawmidi.ko': No such
> > file or directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/drivers/mpu401/snd-mpu401-uart.ko': No such file or directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/snd-page-alloc.ko': No such
> > file or directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/snd-timer.ko': No such file
> > or directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/snd-pcm.ko': No such file or
> > directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.ko': No
> > such file or directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/snd.ko': No such file or
> > directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq-device.ko': No
> > such file or directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/snd-rawmidi.ko': No such
> > file or directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/drivers/mpu401/snd-mpu401-uart.ko': No such file or directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/snd-page-alloc.ko': No such
> > file or directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/snd-timer.ko': No such file
> > or directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/core/snd-pcm.ko': No such file or
> > directory
> > WARNING: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.ko': No
> > such file or directory
> > FATAL: Could not open
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko': No such
> > file or directory
> > 
> > All the directories are there but none of the files/drivers.
> 
> Holy shamoley!  That's really bad.
> 
> > Since I tried to 'make' the alsa-driver-1.0.3 tarball I seem to have
> > cocked up a lot of things, including cron which is no longer working
> > I've just discovered. 
> 
> Man, that's weird.  A "make" shouldn't wipe out the currently installed
> stuff unless you did a "make install" and the Makefile's dependencies
> were screwed up.  If it wiped your stuff out with a "make install" and
> the initial make was unsuccessful, then I'd shoot a strongly worded note
> to the ALSA people telling them their Makefile is buggered.

What I did was a ./configure then, as root, make; make install. It
bombed out with errors with missing directories on the make. That was
why I wanted to install the kernel source, which hasn't installed btw,
even though rpm -qi says it has :-(

The ALSA people do their best under trying circumstances I guess but I
haven't received any meaningful assistance from the alsa-users list
apart from 'wind up the volume', which is legit advice of course.

Sound worked fine until I upgraded to the 2.6.8 kernel. Sound then
mysteriously went awol, it wants to configure my wlan adaptor twice,
eth1 & eth2 then on the next boot it complains of eth2 going missing, I
remove the config and the next boot it 'finds' the wlan adaptor again
and wants to configure it again as eth2. The 2.6 kernel seems to have
more bugs in it than a swamp. One gets fixed and another gets created.
Debian stable is looking more and more attractive :-) At least one
wouldn't have the frenetic cycle of upgrades.

Do you know if I can revert to OSS? and if so, how?

> 
> >                        I have tried a few times to install the
> > kernel-2.6.8-1.521.src.rpm using 'i' or 'U' but while it appears to
> > install OK I cannot find it anywhere even though rpm -qi says it is
> > installed.
> > 
> > Does any of the above info help?
> 
> As to the source, it should be in /usr/src/linux-kernelversion.  For
> that version, /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-1.521.  A "yum -qil packagename"
> should tell you what files were installed where.
> 
> Oh, and I forgot, you need to call it "yum install kernel-sourcecode*"
> for the source to be installed.

I downloaded the kernel-2.6.8-1.521.src.rpm file but I cannot install
it. rpm says it installed, -qi says it is there but it must be pretty
ethereal, I cannot find it. It sure isn't in /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-1.521.
That directory doesn't exist!

If you can help I would really appreciate it but if not, then thanks for
letting me bend your ear.


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