On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 11:03 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Andrew <andy.allen at 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: > >> > >> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-alsa > >> > > 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