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
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