Hello,
Under Fedora Core 6 I used to integrate the soundcard of my notebook with modprobe snd-opl3sa2. Now, after changing my system to CentOS 5, I could not find this module for my isa soundcard any more.
# ls -al /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5/kernel/sound/isa/ insgesamt 24 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 27. Apr 04:09 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 26. Apr 18:15 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 27. Apr 03:36 sb
Both system-config-soundcard and alsaconf, compiled from sources, don't find my isa soundcard. How could I get my soundcard working under CentOS 5? Thank you.
regards Olaf
On 4/26/07, Olaf Mueller daily-planet@istari.de wrote:
Both system-config-soundcard and alsaconf, compiled from sources, don't find my isa soundcard. How could I get my soundcard working under CentOS 5? Thank you.
Upstream has removed nearly all support for ISA devices in the kernel. It was added back into the centosplus kernel for centos4, I'm not sure if it was/will be added to the centosplus kernel for c5.
Jim Perrin wrote:
Upstream has removed nearly all support for ISA devices in the kernel. It was added back into the centosplus kernel for centos4, I'm not sure if it was/will be added to the centosplus kernel for c5.
What a pity. I have installed CentOS on my server and it works very well. So I would like to have it also installed on my notebook with a isa soundcard. Maybe I should give kubuntu a try. But I would prefer the long term support CentOS gives.
regards Olaf
Olaf Mueller wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
Upstream has removed nearly all support for ISA devices in the kernel. It was added back into the centosplus kernel for centos4, I'm not sure if it was/will be added to the centosplus kernel for c5.
What a pity. I have installed CentOS on my server and it works very well. So I would like to have it also installed on my notebook with a isa soundcard. Maybe I should give kubuntu a try. But I would prefer the long term support CentOS gives.
Perhaps you may add the ISA support to the kernel yourself, and recompile it? Someone may provide more info on this.
Ioannis Vranos wrote:
Olaf Mueller wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
Upstream has removed nearly all support for ISA devices in the kernel. It was added back into the centosplus kernel for centos4, I'm not sure if it was/will be added to the centosplus kernel for c5.
What a pity. I have installed CentOS on my server and it works very well. So I would like to have it also installed on my notebook with a isa soundcard. Maybe I should give kubuntu a try. But I would prefer the long term support CentOS gives.
Perhaps you may add the ISA support to the kernel yourself, and recompile it? Someone may provide more info on this.
Yes, this could be a way. Initially I have chosen CentOS 5 for my admittedly very old but also nice notebook toshiba tecra 8000 cause of the long term support that CentOS has. This notebook has seen all the fedora core versions from 1 to 6. And after each new upgrade something get wrong, usually the isa sound card stops the work. My hope was to install CentOS once and getting all the things run, yum will do the rest and I get peace for a few years. But if I had to build my own kernel, I will get no peace.
I am completely happy with CentOS 5 on my server. It would be great to have such a nice system also on my notebook.
regards Olaf
Olaf Mueller spake the following on 4/28/2007 3:55 AM:
Ioannis Vranos wrote:
Olaf Mueller wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
Upstream has removed nearly all support for ISA devices in the kernel. It was added back into the centosplus kernel for centos4, I'm not sure if it was/will be added to the centosplus kernel for c5.
What a pity. I have installed CentOS on my server and it works very well. So I would like to have it also installed on my notebook with a isa soundcard. Maybe I should give kubuntu a try. But I would prefer the long term support CentOS gives.
Perhaps you may add the ISA support to the kernel yourself, and recompile it? Someone may provide more info on this.
Yes, this could be a way. Initially I have chosen CentOS 5 for my admittedly very old but also nice notebook toshiba tecra 8000 cause of the long term support that CentOS has. This notebook has seen all the fedora core versions from 1 to 6. And after each new upgrade something get wrong, usually the isa sound card stops the work. My hope was to install CentOS once and getting all the things run, yum will do the rest and I get peace for a few years. But if I had to build my own kernel, I will get no peace.
I am completely happy with CentOS 5 on my server. It would be great to have such a nice system also on my notebook.
regards Olaf
Did the laptop work OK with core 3? If so, you might be able to install Centos 4. It still has several years of support left.
Olaf Mueller wrote:
Yes, this could be a way. Initially I have chosen CentOS 5 for my admittedly very old but also nice notebook toshiba tecra 8000 cause of the long term support that CentOS has. This notebook has seen all the fedora core versions from 1 to 6. And after each new upgrade something get wrong, usually the isa sound card stops the work. My hope was to install CentOS once and getting all the things run, yum will do the rest and I get peace for a few years. But if I had to build my own kernel, I will get no peace.
I am completely happy with CentOS 5 on my server. It would be great to have such a nice system also on my notebook.
regards Olaf
Is there a reason you do not want to run one of the Fedora Cores that worked (other than support)? I ran Fedora Core 1 on a server until just very recently. The only reason I upgraded the OS was because I was also upgrading the hardware; otherwise, I would have just left what was working alone. If your notebook works fine with one of the older kernels, just run that one. As long as you are not running a web server or something that will be constantly scanned by the script kiddies, you should not have any problems.
Patrick
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 13:30 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
Olaf Mueller wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
Upstream has removed nearly all support for ISA devices in the kernel. It was added back into the centosplus kernel for centos4, I'm not sure if it was/will be added to the centosplus kernel for c5.
What a pity. I have installed CentOS on my server and it works very well. So I would like to have it also installed on my notebook with a isa soundcard. Maybe I should give kubuntu a try. But I would prefer the long term support CentOS gives.
Perhaps you may add the ISA support to the kernel yourself, and recompile it? Someone may provide more info on this.
The problem with ISA support is it causes problems/conflicts with other things on some hardware, which is why it is disabled upstream.
We might be able to build some of these things as stand alone kmod modules.
One can certainly build the modules individually (which is a PITA) ... but someone might develop a way to build kmod modules for some modules included in the kernel (but built outside the kernel tree) using kernel-devel.
We have that kind of system currently for the XFS filesystem ... and someone might be able to use the example of the XFS kmod SRPM (and the "Out Of Tree" patch) to be able to do this sort of thing outside the main kernel SRPM.
I don't have time to do that right now, as I need to get several Extras RPMS (drbd, heartbeat, horde, xfce) ported and working on CentOS-5 this weekend.
One should be able to use this guide to build a standalone module though:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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