[PlanetCCRMA] updated: new ALSA drivers

Francois Dechelle Francois.Dechelle@ircam.fr
Wed Jan 22 03:05:02 2003


On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 10:54, Joseph Zitt wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:28:12 +0100
> Emiliano Grilli <emillo@libero.it> wrote:
> 
> >   Only one question, since I'm not connected at home... I've
> >   downloaded the rpms, but how do I determine if I have to use the
> >   i386 or the i686 rpm?
> 
> A web page that I'm looking at now for another problem suggests that you
> do a 
> 
> grep "#define __MODULE_KERNEL_i" /boot/kernel.h 
> 
> For me, that gives the result 
> 
> #define __MODULE_KERNEL_i686
> 
> showing that I'm using a 686 kernel.
> 
> What I suggest could be utterly wrong or misleading, though it might be
> useful.

Another way:
rpm --queryformat="%{ARCH}\n" -q kernel
will print out the architecture of the kernel rpm