Fedora & Sound: an excercise in frustration

[Rahul Sundaram]

Dimi Paun wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> The sound situation is appalling: since FC6, my sounds stops/starts
> working with pretty much _every_ kernel update! Don't worry, the
> steady state is that it's not working. It will start working for a
> short lived kernel version, but people are diligently working to
> fix it back to its non-working state.
> 
> Hardware (bog standard):
>   [root at dimi ~]# lspci | grep -i audio
>   00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
> 
> Software:
>    Standard FC6, now F7
> 

I would appreciate if you can try this and let me know if this fixes 
your problem:

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yum -y update glibc\*
yum -y install automake gcc mercurial iwl\*
hg clone http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-driver alsa-driver
cd alsa-driver
./cvscompile
make install

Rahul