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Re: [SLE] Installing OSS drivers?
  • From: James Oakley <joakley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:07:33 -0400
  • Message-id: <200201021407.g02E7Z001800@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On January 1, 2002 04:16 pm, Rick Green wrote:
> I'm trying to make another stab at getting sound going on my Dell Latitude
> laptop. I've been unsuccessful with the ALSA drivers shipped with SuSE,
> so I thought I'd try the OSS drivers. They claim 'Dell Latitude' support,
> so it's worth a try...
...snip...
> I'm still not there. oss-install is complaining about two things:
> version.txt does not exist, and modversions.h does not exist.
> Has someone been successful doing an install of the OSS drivers on SuSE
> 7.2pro, and can help me out?

I've run OSS on 7.2pro before, but it was after I managed to break ALSA in a
Mantel kernel upgrade (I've had OSS for years, but only use it when I have
to).

Basically, I'd try the following (as it's basically what I did):

- - Go to ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next/rpm and grab a new kernel
and the associated sources. Do an rpm -Uvh for both (yes, you can always back
out to the originals if you run into trouble)
- - Grab the latest OSS from http://www.4front-tech.com

If any of that doesn't work, try their support. I used it once about 3 years
ago and got an informative human reply within 15 minutes (beating my previous
Matrox record of 30 minutes).


> <quiet complaint>
> I miss the file listing in the package descriptions in yast! What would
> be really nice would be a searchable index of every file in every RPM, so
> that I could easily find which RPM I need to install!
> </complaint>

That would be *really* cool.

- --
James Oakley
Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd.
joakley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.solutioninc.com
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