Chris Reeves wrote:

Jerry VB wrote:

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Kris Carlier wrote:

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On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Jerry VB wrote:

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Well guys, I am totally frustrated. it doesn't matter what I try, I get the same errors every time. I know I selected devpts and my sound card as a module. It's just not creating the modules correctly, don't know why. Here's my procedure:

1. make mrproper 2. make menuconfig 3. make dep 4. make clean 5. make bzImage 5 make bzlilo

Does bzlilo write lilo to the floppy? As I am not willing yet to give up my mbr to lilo.

I don't think bzlilo writes the kernel image to a floppy, however I believe that bzdisk will. However, if you just want to run LILO off the floppy, and leave the kernel image on the hard disk, then as long as LILO is set up to install to the floppy disk (look for the line "boot = /dev/fd0" in /etc/lilo.conf), bzlilo will work.

Thanks for the tip, that is what I want. However, I'm trying to compile kernel linux-2.2.16.SuSE-21 and not having very much luck. Every time I recompile & reboot it never builds any modules for my SB-16 card. Shouldn't a SB-16 card be rather easy? Plus, I get other errors as mentioned in my first post. I've gone through the menuconfig setup over and over with no luck. i can't figure it out. To frustrating, I think I'll just give up and stay with the 2.2.14 kernel.

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6. make modules 7. make modules_install OK

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8. copy bzImage to /boot 9. run lilo using YAST(so I can out it on a floppy) skip 8 and 9, as this is done in 5 already now

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10. reboot

What am I doing wrong?

make sure your kernel is configure the right way

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"S.Toms" wrote:

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Jerry VB wrote:

jv> Chris Reeves wrote: jv> > jv> > I don't think bzlilo writes the kernel image to a floppy, however I jv> > believe that bzdisk will. However, if you just want to run LILO off the jv> > floppy, and leave the kernel image on the hard disk, then as long as jv> > LILO is set up to install to the floppy disk (look for the line "boot = jv> > /dev/fd0" in /etc/lilo.conf), bzlilo will work. jv> jv> Thanks for the tip, that is what I want. However, I'm trying to compile jv> kernel linux-2.2.16.SuSE-21 and not having very much luck. Every time I jv> recompile & reboot it never builds any modules for my SB-16 card. jv> Shouldn't a SB-16 card be rather easy? Plus, I get other errors as jv> mentioned in my first post. I've gone through the menuconfig setup over jv> and over with no luck. i can't figure it out. To frustrating, I think jv> I'll just give up and stay with the 2.2.14 kernel. jv>

Which SB-16 card are you using? I've got an SB-16 card in another of my systems, with the following configuration within the kernel config which works quite well.

I've got the Sound blaster 16 ISA-PNP. I don't use it in PNP mode though because I also have NT 4.0 that I use once in a great while. My main problem is that every time I try to compile kernel linux-2.2.16.SuSE-21 no modules are created for the sound card. When I look in the /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc folder, after doing the compile and the make modules, make modules_install, there are no snd-card-... modules in there! Therefore when the kernel boots, of course it can't load snd-card-sb16 because it doesn't exist. Either something is wrong with the kernel or I don't have the right version of some compiler for modules. I don't know, I'm very new to this. Thanks, Jerry

# # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=m # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAESTRO is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ESSSOLO1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m # CONFIG_SOUND_PAS is not set CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m # CONFIG_SOUND_GUS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_PSS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_WAVEFRONT is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_AD1816 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS is not set CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI=m # CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_NM256 is not set

I also have the following in my conf.modules file

# alias char-major-14 off # alias sound off # alias midi off

alias char-major-14 sb post-install sb /sbin/modprobe "-k" "adlib_card" options sound dmabuf=1 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 options adlib_card io=0x388

which makes it all work quite well.

jv>

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"S.Toms" wrote:

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Jerry VB wrote:

jv> "S.Toms" wrote: jv> > jv> > On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Jerry VB wrote: jv> > Which SB-16 card are you using? I've got an SB-16 card in another of my jv> > systems, with the following configuration within the kernel config which jv> > works quite well. jv> jv> I've got the Sound blaster 16 ISA-PNP. I don't use it in PNP mode though jv> because I also have NT 4.0 that I use once in a great while. jv> jv> My main problem is that every time I try to compile kernel jv> linux-2.2.16.SuSE-21 no modules are created for the sound card. When I jv> look in the /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc folder, after doing the compile and jv> the make modules, make modules_install, there are no snd-card-... jv> modules in there! Therefore when the kernel boots, of course it can't jv> load snd-card-sb16 because it doesn't exist. Either something is wrong jv> with the kernel or I don't have the right version of some compiler for jv> modules. I don't know, I'm very new to this. jv>

Almost sounds like your selecting the sound to be built into the kernel rather then into modules, verify that the selection your making is <M> for modules in the sound selection section. If that's the case, then uncomment the snd options in your conf.modules file. Also, send me your .config file so I can take a look at it, if you don't mind.

Now I've been trying to compile 2.2.17; I get the same three errors during bootup. Anyway, attached is my .config file. If I modify the conf.modules file, then I get "conf.modules file is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep" error messages. If I try to run alsa.conf, it says that there is no sound card installed???

jv> Thanks, jv> Jerry jv> jv>

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Nick Zentena wrote:

On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Jerry VB wrote:

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Now I've been trying to compile 2.2.17; I get the same three errors during bootup. Anyway, attached is my .config file. If I modify the conf.modules file, then I get "conf.modules file is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep" error messages. If I try to run alsa.conf, it says that there is no sound card installed???

I don't remember the problems you were having but

type depmod -A that should fix that one.

looking at your .config I don't see devpts.

CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y

That should be some place in the FS section.

I'm having my own problems getting Alsa to compile so I'll leave that to somebody else-)

Nick

Here's my original post, which contains a list of the problems I am having: Hello SuSErs, I'm trying to learn how to compile my own kernel. I currently have a stock 6.4 installed. I am trying to compile kernel linux-2.2.16.SuSE-21. I can get it to boot up, but every time it boots I get three types of error messages: 1) something about it can't find char-major-4; 2) devpts on /dev/pts failed; and 3) can't locate module snd-card-sb16. All of these messages fly past so fast I may not have them down exact, and the error messages are not in dmesg. When I look in the /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc folder, there are no snd-card modules like there are in the /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc folder. That seems strange to me. My sound card is a ISA PNP Soundblaster 16. I'm using it in the non-ISA mode, for NT on my system. Can anybody help, I'd like to learn how to sucessfully compile kernels. Thank you, Jerry VB Only difference is that now I am using kernel 2.2.17, with the same error messages. No, I didn't do a depmod -a ; I didn't know about that. That's what I like about this list, you ask, you learn, thank you. Now, I looked and looked and I didn't see anything in xconfig about devpts, does this mean device ports? Where in the xconfig setup is it selected?? Thanks, Jerry

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On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Jerry VB wrote:

My main problem is that every time I try to compile kernel linux-2.2.16.SuSE-21 no modules are created for the sound card. When I look in the /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc folder, after doing the compile and the make modules, make modules_install, there are no snd-card-... modules in there! Therefore when the kernel boots, of course it can't load snd-card-sb16 because it doesn't exist. Either something is wrong with the kernel or I don't have the right version of some compiler for modules. I don't know, I'm very new to this.

I might be wrong, but I think that snd-card-sb16 is one of the ALSA modules, rather than from the standard kernel sound modules (which I think would compile as soundcore.o and sb.o, or something similar). Maybe you need to compile ALSA too? J. | John Patterson / Jarel on Snowplains (telnet to snowplains.org 3456) | | Email: jarel@snowplains.org | Web: http://snowplains.org/~jarel/ | -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Jerry VB wrote:

modules in there! Therefore when the kernel boots, of course it can't load snd-card-sb16 because it doesn't exist. Either something is wrong with the kernel or I don't have the right version of some compiler for modules. I don't know, I'm very new to this.

Let me throw out a suggestion. Copy the .config file someplace safe. Say $HOME. Then reinstall the SuSE provided src. Compare the .config file that SuSE provides [which I assume is what they use to build the kernel] with the one you saved. Just use the diff command. See if the areas that are giving you problems are different. Even if you don't want to compare the two reinstall. DON'T do a make proper to start with. Just start with make menuconfig and just delete the options you don't need. Nick -- ----------------------------- Anybody got plans for an ark? ----------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

Nick Zentena wrote:

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Jerry VB wrote:

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Thanks for the tip, that is what I want. However, I'm trying to compile kernel linux-2.2.16.SuSE-21 and not having very much luck. Every time I recompile & reboot it never builds any modules for my SB-16 card. Shouldn't a SB-16 card be rather easy? Plus, I get other errors as mentioned in my first post. I've gone through the menuconfig setup over and over with no luck. i can't figure it out. To frustrating, I think I'll just give up and stay with the 2.2.14 kernel.

take a look at the .config file in /usr/src/linux. See if it's actually writing the right option out. No real need to do a make proper to begin with. I think it just wipes out your .config file. IMHO not something you really want. So skip that step but that shouldn't be your problem. Doesn't SuSE still have make xconfig available to root? Try that instead. It's a little easier to see everything.

Nick

Okay, thanks Nick, I'll try it (xconfig), sometime today.

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