[ATrpms-devel] Re: New redhat 7.3 kernel

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

>Do you have several nvidia drivers installed? Please use
>nvidia-graphics-switch to fix all nvidia settings.

>2.4.20-43_41.rh7.3.at is just a security update from the previous
>kernel. It should not have any behavioral changes, or at least that's
>the theory of it ...

I have other nvidia drivers installed, but if I reboot back to 2.4.20-37
it works. With the new kernel, I get a black screen. After a long time
it appears a message saying that X could not be started. I tried to 
recompile
the driver from the src rpm (I have the macros). The compilation went 
smootly
but the result was the same. I recompiled using "with devices".
All logs look fine. If I go to a console screen and use "lsmod" the dirver 
is there,
but the used field is 0 instead of 6.

>Did you use 1.0.9 or 1.0.9rc4a? 1.0.9 needs a small patch to be built
>on 2.4 kernels.

I used alsa-driver-1.0.9-37.1_rc4a_.rh7.3.at.src.rpm, the only one available 
at ATrpms.
Everything else is 1.0.9 (latest version).
The low recording volume precludes me of using any voip application with 
cmidia
drivers. I have another box with Intel onboard sound (but fedora 1), and the 
sound is great.
But the low volume was also in the previous version. The difference is that 
now alsamixer
is broken (maybe something has always been broken with the mic capture 
channel).

The only thing about my redhat 7.3 box is that it uses ximian gnome 2, and 
to be able to have
new versions of firefox, thunderbird, acroread 7, etc... working I upgraded 
glibc to the lastest
version of redhat 9. But the system has been running great since then. I 
have planet ccrma
kernel installed and generated alsa and nvidia drivers for it using ATrpms 
src.rpms So the system
is pretty usable. I run everything I need on it.

/Paulo Roma.