RHEL 4 audio problems -- update

[Gary Gatling]

Greetings,

Sorry I didn't reply to this sooner but I was in training all last week 
and we block kernel upgrades from red hat (via pkgSkipList=kernel in 
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date so we can do these things at a time of our 
own choosing)

I have confirmed that kernel 2.6.9-55 fixes the sound issues on the 
Precision 380. Here are the commands I ran in my tests:

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rpm -e snd-hda-intel > /dev/null 2>&1
rpm -e dkms > /dev/null 2>&1
/usr/sbin/up2date -f -u --nox > /dev/null 2>&1
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We are gonna run a script to run these commands this weekend on all of 
our Precision 380s running RHEL 4. I've also modified our kickstart files 
so that we aren't trying to install these two RPMs when people need to 
install a fresh machine. This works because we run /usr/sbin/up2date -f -u 
in our %post in kickstart so any newly installed machines should get 
2.6.9-55 or newer kernel on first boot.

Thanks,

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 John_Hull at dell.com wrote:

> Just want to give the list an update on the RHEL 4 audio problems seen
> with the integrated audio on Precision desktops. The original
> snd-had-intel RPM we put out was originally just a workaround until Red
> Hat could get the native support into RHEL 4, but that RPM seems to have
> taken on a life of its own. We have been focusing our recent efforts
> with Red Hat on fixing the problems with the native RHEL 4 driver
> (snd-azx), as that is the preferred solution (so that audio "just works"
> out of the box). With our testing of the RHEL 4.5 beta, the audio
> problems appear to be resolved. If anyone has access to the beta, I
> would encourage you to try out the beta kernel to help us confirm that
> the audio problems are ineed fixed. We would like that to be the driver
> that everyone uses going forward, assuming it works satisfactorily for
> everyone.
>
> 	John
>
>
> John A. Hull
> Manager, Linux OS Development
> Dell Inc.
> http://linux.dell.com
>
>
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