Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 118089
kernel alsa drivers do not include intel-8x0m
Last modified: 2007-04-18 13:04:12 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116 Galeon/1.3.13 Description of problem: There is one driver for intel ac97 controller: intel8x0m. It is included into the alsa package 1.0.2+ - but it is not in the core kernel yet. Could you pretty please include it as a patch to the kernel. I am asking not only because of the sound card. This driver allows to work SmartLink winmodems - WITHOUT installing proprietary binary drivers (tainting kernel etc etc), just with user-space daemon (slmodemd). This winmodem is very often in Centrino-based laptops so I think many people would be grateful to you. The ideal solution would be to included slmodemd as well - but these is binary-only object file linked, so I am not sure about the licensing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.3-100 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Just check the kernel, sound/pci directory Additional info:
Push the ALSA guys to push it upstream instead. If theres a reason its not there already, theres likely an equally good reason for not including it in Fedora.
There is no special reason here. AFAIK it just takes time to push new driver (even working one) to the official kernel. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4003716&forum_id=1752