Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Jesse Marlin <jlm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

ForeverCheerful writes:
 > In order to try and get more info on my usb sm card reader regarding it's 
 > insistance on mount sda1 as write protected I decided to change one option in 
 > my kernel config.  The steps I took were:
 > 
 > make cloneconfig
 > make xconfig   (changed the setting)
 > (then following the manual)
 > make dep clean bzImage
 > make modules
 > make bzlilo
 > make modules_install
 > (for good measure.  :-) )
 > mkinitrd
 > lilo
 > 
 > I rebooted the system and everything seemed fine (still won't mount sda1 write 
 > protect off) but no sound.  I tried to load the modules manually snd-sbawe.  
 > I got an error message saying it couldn't be mounted.  I checked 

The snd-* modules are ALSA modules which are not in the 2.4.x kernels.  When
you rebuild the kernel these modules will not get rebuilt.
make modules_install will delete any modules previously installed
in /lib/modules/2.4.x, and I suspect this wiped out these modules.  I have a
ALSA driver source tree that I use everytime I change kernels.  You could
have saved yourself some trouble if you first saved off all of snd-* modules
before doing the make modules_install.

To fix you might try reinstalling the ALSA rpms.
Hope this helps.

 > /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel and there were no sound modules whatsoever.  
 > They were there before I attempted my little kernel config. exercise but they 
 > now seemed to have disappeared.
 > 
 > Can someone tell me what I did wrong?  What am I missing?  Thanks in advance.
 > 
 > Eddie
 > 
 > -- 
 > Be different, say something nice.
 >