> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: > >/ I tried to install alsa 1.0.19 on centos 5.3 64 - did not work - compile > />/ errors. > / > Installing via rpm is separate from compiling. Which are you doing? > Are you having trouble building rpms, or installing them? > > > > >/ I need to re-install alsa-lib and alsa-util . > />/ I dont want to do rpm -e first on those packages as dependcy is crazy. > />/ I know they were installed (rpm -qa | grep alsa tells me so) I just want > />/ to re-install ? > />/ How do I do that? > / > Depends. > > nothing sinister here.... was not getting HDMI sound on my motherboard, did some searching seemed like I needed to update to alsa 1.0.19 so I tried it. compiling from source. Ran into compile errors so I wanted to backout to the default alsa. the default alsa worked but just not over HDMI . So I wish to re-install the default alsa 1.0.17 rpm's. Either through yum or rpm. preferably through yum. as its easier. Thanks, Jerry