Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2372 mails)

[Chris Reeves <chris.reeves@xxxxxxxxx>]

MaD dUCK wrote:
> 
> hey all,
> i have a couple of systems running redhat 6.2 and now finally got
> around to installing suse 7.0 on my laptop (dell latitude cpi-a,
> 366mhz, 256mb, 10Gb). when 2.4.0 came out, i took a redhat 6.2 test
> system and splashed the kernel on there, compiled, rebooted - and
> everything was set. modules load on demand, kwintv works, cdburning
> works, the system seems perfect.
> 
> so then i decided to give it a shot on my laptop simply because i like
> having the latest stuff around (even if it's not entirely safe). as i
> said, the laptop runs suse 7.0 and uses reiserfs on everything but
> /boot (/dev/hda1). logically, i patched 2.4.0 with reiserfs 3.6.25 and
> built reiserfs straight into the kernel, since my root partition is
> reiserfs.
> 
> furthermore, because of some of my pcmcia cards, and my failure to get
> my 3c575_cb card to be loaded as 3c59x (vortex) - a change in 2.4.0 -,
> i disabled pcmcia in the kernel and built pcmcia_cs-3.1.23.
> 
> and it boots fine. but there are no modules loaded except for the
> hierarchy required by 3c575_cb - which consists of pcmcia_core, i82365,
> ds, cb_enabler, and 3c575_cb. but no other modules are loaded or will
> load automatically.
> 
> take apm, when i run apm without the module apm in the kernel, i will
> get "No APM support in kernel." doing a modprobe apm correctly adds it
> to the kernel and then apm works.
> 
> or nm256_audio: doing a play somewave.wav results in "unknown device:
> /dev/dsp" but after the module is added with modprobe, sound works.
> 
> now, my question is - what happened to kmod? it seems that the redhat
> dist works fine, but something about suse screws up. since kmod is a
> kernel thread, i assume it's loaded, so my first guess would be
> /etc/modules.conf - which suse fills up with 2 billion lines of
> useless junk. YaST?
> 
> ACK! do i need one of those "alias char_major_XX apm" lines in
> modules.conf for the apm.o module to be loaded automatically upon
> request?

Did you download and compile the modutils for kernel 2.4.0? This may
have been installed automatically on RedHat if you used RPM. Do a
'insmod -V' to find out what version of modutils you have.

Bye,
	Chris
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