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limpit45
2005-05-13, 09:18 PM CDT
Hi!

I've just installed FC3 and can't get my sound card to work. used sound card detection and it finds my onboard card, but when clicking the test button, i don't hear any audio, and nothing i can find is muted...

I got hold of the official dell sound drivers for alsa (dell-alsa-driver-0.9.0rc6-4dkms.noarch.rpm), but when i try to install that it says it requires the package kernel-source. i fiddled around with it a bit and installed the kernel-source package, but running "rpm -q kernel-source" displays the following message:

package kernel-source is not installed.

I have the kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.src.rpm file "installed" in both /usr/src/linux, usr/src/linux-2.6.11 and usr/src/redhat/BUILD

what could i be doing wrong? could someone take me through the steps of installing the kernel-source package properly? if i double-click the RPM file i get the message "The file.... is a source RPM which cannot be installed with system-config-packages" so i have to do it manually?

please help! i have no sound! :(
limpit45
2005-05-13, 10:31 PM CDT
okay i found info on here on how to install the kernel-source package, but running "rpm -q kernel-source" still tells me that the package is uninstalled!
strikeforce
2005-05-14, 01:00 AM CDT
its because the package name is not kernel-source I believe correct me if I'm wrong but its kernel-source-2.6.11.1-14 or something like that
Jman
2005-05-15, 08:05 PM CDT
You have the source. kernel-source has been replaced by the src rpm. See the release notes (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/).
strikeforce
2005-05-16, 06:01 PM CDT
You have the source. kernel-source has been replaced by the src rpm. See the release notes (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/).

My apologies your right. I've been using debian lately. Sorry about that you will find on a mirror site the kernel-2.6.11.1-14.src.rpm that is your kernel source rpm. Its in a separate repository. However I've never needed to download that in fedora to compile anything.

In debian however I've needed to download that to compile the nvidia drivers however in fedora it uses the lib/modules/kernel`uname -r` to compile so I'm not sure.