[mythtv-users] Re: Alsasound not working

[Mike Wohlgemuth]

Alex Davidson wrote:

>I got the unresolved sumbols thing.
>
>I'm completely out of my depth with Linux so maybe you can point me to a
>resource that would explain how to do this.
>Does this procedure allow me to continue running RH9 or would I be taking a
>step back to RH8 as others have needed to do?
>
Note that I haven't reverted to RedHat 8.0.  I installed RedHat 9, and 
after having problems with installing ALSA, I took the 
kernel-source-2.4.18-27.8.0 rpm for RedHat 8.0 and installed it under 
RedHat 9.  I then built and installed this kernel (I have to run a 
custom compiled kernel due to some of the hardware I'm using).  So I'm 
running RedHat 9 with a RedHat 8.0 kernel.

You could probably just get the kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0 rpm and install it, 
but I haven't tried that.  It may be easier to step back to RedHat 8.0 
if you aren't too comfortable with all this, but building your own 
kernel isn't that bad (if indeed just installing the kernel rpm doesn't 
work for you).  If you've built ALSA (and it sounds like you actually 
did that properly) you can probably handle the kernel build process as 
well.  If you can get away without building the kernel, you will still 
need kernel-source-2.4.18-27.8.0 in order to build ALSA, since 
kernel-source-2.4.18-27.8.0 has the headers you will need.

Mike