Andrew wrote:
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 11:03 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Andrew andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:
What version of ALSA driver are you using? Have you tried updating ALSA as the version within CentOS is quite old now (1.0.14rc3).
Elrepo has an updated ALSA driver package here:
Thanks for that useful information, but can you tell me exactly how to perform the update? I tried 'yum update *alsa*' as I have the Elrepo repository installed, but it came up with 'No Packages marked for Update'. Do I need to completely remove all the currently installed ALSA packages and then do 'yum install kmod-alsa? Any advice gratefully received, thanks.
Perhaps, you do not have elrepo enabled (default behavior) ? In that case, try:
yum --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-alsa
Akemi
Many thanks, I've installed kmod-alsa OK but the mic is still not working (with skype). Do I need to remove the old ALSA packages alsa-lib and alsa-utils? - because when I type 'yum erase alsa-lib alsa-utils' it wants to remove 123 packages!
Andy
No, do *not* remove alsa-lib or alsa-utils (they are core CentOS packages).
Have you rebooted since installing kmod-alsa as the kernel will need to load the new drivers? If not, please reboot and retest.
If it's still not working after updating ALSA using kmod-alsa from elrepo (after a reboot), then you might want to consider removing that package as it hasn't fixed the problem in your case:
yum erase kmod-alsa
Hope that helps.