[wellylug] Kernel Compile - SUCCESS!

Ewen McNeill wellylug at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz
Wed Sep 3 23:19:33 NZST 2003


In message <1062585032.614.13.camel at smokey>, Leslie Boardman writes:
>I think there is a problem with the something in the debian package for
>the alsa-drivers.  The pcmcia modules ended up in
>/lib/modules/2.4.18.mykernel/pcmcia/...  the alsa ones ended up in
>/lib/modules/2.4.18/alsa/... and did not work until I copied them over
>to lib/modules/2.4.18.mykernel/alsa/...  

Nope, that's normal.

I have:

ewen at basilica:/lib/modules/2.4.21-xfs-lvm107-ll-acpi-skas-bluezmh2 $ ls
alsa/    modules.dep             modules.parportmap  pcmcia/
build@   modules.generic_string  modules.pcimap
kernel/  modules.ieee1394map     modules.pnpbiosmap
misc/    modules.isapnpmap       modules.usbmap

which is my alsa modules, my supplied-with-the kernel modules, my pcmcia
modules, and some VMware modules (in misc).

The module utilities should automatically search all of these places
(and apropriate subdirectories) for the right modules.

Try:

update-modules
depmod -a

And see if that allows loading from the alsa, etc, directories.

In order to get it to search in all the right locations.  If it doesn't,
the problem is perhaps with the configuration in /etc/modutils; perhaps
you don't have an /etc/modutils/alsa-path containing something like:

-=- cut here -=-
# Debian ALSA modules path
# Do not edit this unless you understand what you're doing.
path=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/alsa
-=- cut here -=-

which is in the alsa-base package on my machine.

Anyway congratulations on rebuilding your kernel and getting sound, etc,
going.

Ewen



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