well I promised progress - well I went and read about
RPM so I'd know what the
hell it was, and now am applying patch. I've got Fernando's kernel and ALSA
source, and I've put the patch in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and edited the alsa
driver spec file, adding that patch, (I had to manually create the redhat
directory in /usr/src - it wasn't there and rpm wouldn't create it
and following directions on
http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/recompilealsa.html
but I'm getting this wonderful thing:
bash: rpmbuild: command not found
that was quite unexpected. I'm sure I'll figure this out eventually but I
thought it'd be smarter and faster to ask - what is happening? do I have a
partial RPM in my system?
# rpm --version gives me:
RPM version 4.2
Hmmm, I guess you need rpm-build:
# rpm -q -f /usr/bin/rpmbuild
rpm-build-4.2-0.69
If you are on Planet CCRMA an "apt-get install rpm-build" should get it
for you (and probably that's why you were missing /usr/src/redhat)
-- Fernando