On Monday 26 August 2002 03:49 pm, Donavan Pantke wrote:

On Monday 26 August 2002 17:48, Mike.P.Smith@kp.org wrote:

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Hello, can anyone help to point me in the right direction to solve the following problem.

I have a 7.3 installation, with a soundblaster live soundcard. It worked fine in KDE with the stock 2.4.10 kernel. I downloaded and installed the suse 2.4.16 kernel source rpm and updated to the 2.4.16 kernel, via make oldconfig, make dep, make bzImage, make modules, and make modules_install. When I boot to the new kernel my soundcard does not work. I can see that the directory for the soundcard modules is missing "/lib/modules/kernel_version/misc". What did I do wrong during make modules/make modules_install? Why did the /misc modules directory not get created?

Thanks for any help,

Mike

I suppose the first question is, is there a specific reason why you went with a source compile instead of the stock kernel rpm that they offer? Optimisations?, There is a good chance the answer to Mike's problem is to recompile alsa. The INSTALL file provides a couple of options you may want to look at before running ./configure I use ./configure --with-isapnp=yes --with-sequencer=yes -- dh

Mike.P.Smith@kp.org wrote:

I have a 7.3 installation, with a soundblaster live soundcard. It worked fine in KDE with the stock 2.4.10 kernel. I downloaded and installed the suse 2.4.16 kernel source rpm and updated to the 2.4.16 kernel, via make oldconfig, make dep, make bzImage, make modules, and make modules_install. When I boot to the new kernel my soundcard does not work. I can see that the directory for the soundcard modules is missing

This is from my changes.log for 7.3 with an SBLive... Downloaded and installed kernel 2.4.16.SuSE-2 from mirror.ac.uk mirror of SuSE. You can get it from ftp://ftp.suse.com under people/mantel/next/linux-2.4.16.SuSE-2.tar.bz2 Saved it in directory and copied (actually linked) it to /usr/src/linux-2.4.16.SuSE-2.tar.bz2 # cd /usr/src # tar Ixvf linux-2.4.16.SuSE-2.tar.bz2 [creates new directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.16.SuSE] # rm linux [removes old link] # ln -s linux-2.4.16.SuSE-2 linux # cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.16.SuSE Now copy hidden file .config from original kernel directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.10.SuSE to new directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.16.SuSE and rename it to test-12.1.01 (no longer hidden ;-)). I think this is essentially what cloneconfig does. # make mrproper # make xconfig [needs to be done with root access] Load configurations from test-12.1.01. Sound stuff looks like: y Sound card support m BT878 audio dma m C-media PCI y Enable legacy FM y Enable legacy MPU-401 y Enable joystick y Support CMI8738... n Inverse S/PDIF in for CMI8738 y Enable S/PDIF loop for CMI8738 m Creative SBLive! (EMU10K1) y Creative SBLive! MIDI Everything else m for sound card and default y/n values for anything else. Probably could say no to everything else and save some compilation time. Check, save and exit # make dep # make clean # make bzImage [takes a few minutes] # make modules # make modules_install [won't overwrite anything] copy bzImage from /usr/src/linux-2.4.16.SuSE/arch/i386/boot to /boot and rename vmlinuz-2.4.16 copy System.map from /usr/src/linux-2.4.16.SuSE to /boot and rename System.map-2.4.16-4GB # mk_initrd -k "vmlinuz-2.4.16" -i "initrd-2.4.16" -s auto edit /etc/lilo.conf and change kernel to 2.4.16 (doesn't remove old kernel or modules) # lilo -b /dev/fd0 [installs lilo on a floppy. If it doesn't work, I still haven't lost anything] reboot (from floppy) This all worked without problems, except sound was lost (as expected). As root... # lilo [This time installs on hard disk] Acttually I used lilo -b /dev/hda because lilo doesn't work unless I use -b # lilo reboot and install alsa as follows... downloaded alsa-driver-0.5.12a (needed for 2.4.14+ kernels) to /usr/src/packages/SOURCES # cd /usr/src/packages/SOURCES # tar zxvf alsa-driver-0.5.12a.tar.gz # cd alsa-driver-0.5.12a and compiled... # modprobe soundcore (probably not needed) [root] # CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686" ./configure [Don't use the -march=i686 flag if you have an Athlon!] # make install [root] # ./snddevices [root] (probably not needed) All successful. JDL -- Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.