I need to add a patch to my kernel to enable better sound support for an ICH7 hda-intel card through alsa. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=182940 describes the bug involved with the kernel.

My question is, how exactly do I go about patching the kernel? After that, how do I recompile it?

Here's the fix to your problem as told on the bug report page:

If I were you, I would goto kernel.org, download the latest kernel (2.6.17+), patch it, and then configure and compile yourself. According to the bug report that should fix the problem. Do you also need help doing compiling your kernel?

Well, I need help with actually patching the kernel, and recompiling it as well. I would like to keep my current kernel version, as well. From my understanding, all I need to do is apply the patch file to my current kernel.

That is correct. But to apply the patch your going to have to recompile your kernel first. I would actually just recomend upgrading your kernel since your going to have to recompile anyway. You can use "make oldconfig" to keep all the settings from your previous kernel, and then streamline from there.

If you want to keep your current kernel version though. You'll need to find the sources for it. I assume you'll want the Fedora sources. Now that I think about it, Fedora probably has them still in /usr/source. Look and see, if so there are a million guides out there on how actually do the patching, configuring, and compiling.

Post back and tell us what you wana do, we'll help you from there!

Yeah, I've still got the sources in /usr/src/kernels, I believe. I haven't cleaned anything from when I updated the kernel from FC5's 2054 64 bit kernel using Yum. I could apply the patch to these sources, and then recompile them, could I not? This is what I'd prefer to do, anyway. I need to know how to do that, though.

Yes, you can do that. After you apply the patch, just run "make oldconfig" and then set any news options and then "make install install" and your set!

Okay, it would seem that I'm not doing this right, or I do not have the sources, like I thought I did. I did patch -p1 <patchfile>, and then I did make oldconfig, that went fine; created config.old. Then I did make install install, and I got the following:

[root@homeb0x 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5-x86_64]# make install install
sh /usr/src/kernels/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5-x86_64/arch/x86_64/boot/install.sh 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot"
sh: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5-x86_64/arch/x86_64/boot/install.sh: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 127
make: *** [install] Error 2


Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, this is the first time I've done anything with the kernel itself. Thanks for your patience, in any case.

Did you run "make clean" before you patched the kernel?

I don't know what the install errors mean though. Did you follow a guide somewhere on how to do this? If not, post what steps you did, maybe you've missed something important, like the "make clean" I listed above.

Do you know where I could download the 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 source code? From what I know (Not much, about kernels anyway) it should be in like a tar.gz file. Also, would it make much difference if I just used a 2.6.16.9 kernel on this distro? Would that cause any kind of application conflicts with anything I currently have installed, if it was for the 2096 FC5 kernel?

There should be no conflicts if you used vanilla sources instead of the Fedora ones. I don't personally know where you could download the Fedora sources, you might find a repository somewhere if you google though. Your right, they'll come in a tar.gz file, or maybe a tar.bz or bz2.

Okay, got the kernel 2.6.16.12 up, but I applied the patch, and I'm still having volume problems with my card. I got good experience out of it though, so thanks for your help

Your welcome, and I'm glad your compiled your own kernel. Its a awsome experience.