[Sound] Re: Re: Re: alsa and kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0

[Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mario J. Borgnia (mborgnia@xxxxxxx) said: 
> I meant that I expected Redhat to handle the situation in such a way
> that the only thing I would have to do is to run the upgrade. 

Um, Red Hat can't possibly determine what external drivers you have
installed, and rebuild them for you.

> And it installed something called:
> 
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-17.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/maestro3.o

That's not an ALSA driver. Red Hat Linux does not ship with ALSA
drivers.

> I am not completely sure that the problem resides in maestro3.o
> It could be anything else. The only thing I am sure is that booting to 
> 2.4.18-14 does not disrupt sound, while 2.4.18-17 does.

There is a bug in the maestro3 driver that shipped with 8.0; we're
working on a fix.

Bill