alsa and kernel

[Steve Holmes]

Jack, you may need to do thag God awful make config step over again.
Perhaps you have something configured in there that isn't compatible
somehow.  When I do a new config from scratch, I've about decided that
menuconfig is a better way to go; at least you can backup if you miss
something along the way.

Bill, I just looked here - mutt must capitalize names in the
attribution line automatically:).

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 06:41:06AM -0400, Jack Mandez wrote:
> okay so here is what i have done. so far
> since the last email.
> i went to a totally different machine, extracted the kernel source to /usr/src
> create the symbolic link to linux
> patched the kernel using the checkout script
> inserted the kernel configuration file that i used for a previous
> configuration
> did make oldconfig
> make dep
> all went fine
> did make bzImage
> good
> make modules once again produced unresolved symbols.
> and refused to work
> got the exact same error i got on the first machine
> could there be something wrong with my configuration file?
> does anyone have a configuration file they could send me privately?
> i have an amd system and usually compile as much stuff as modules as possible.
> i also tried answering no to every question in the stuff that the oldconfig
> didn't have accepting of course for the speakup stuff.
> in adition on a different atempt i tried compiling everything which would
> support it, i asked for a module
> i am completely at my wits end and documentation appears to have little or
> nothing to say.
>  
> 
> At 03:40 PM 5/6/03 -0700, you wrote:
> >The only thing I can think of is being sure you are working with a
> >clean directory.  Again, what I do to recompile a kernel at any time
> >is to rm -fr linux-2.4.20.  Then untar linux-2.4.20.tar.gz into
> >/usr/src; this should create a top level directory of
> >/usr/src/linux-2.4.20.  I have already, a symbolic link called linux
> >that points to this newly created directory.  I then go into my root
> >user directory, /root and run the checkout script; it will update
> >Speakup patches into the kernel.  I then copy my previously created
> >.config into /usr/src/linux and do a 'make oldconfig'  If my
> >.config is current enough, I should have no prompts; it should just
> >fly through all the questions and come up with a message implying that
> >the 'make dep' and 'make bzImage' should proceed.  I actually have a
> >script that does the make dep, make bzImage, and make modules for me
> >and capture the output to separate log files.  I fork this into
> >background and come back an hour or so later and view the output files
> >and usually find no errors.  If no errors found, I then do a make
> >modules_install and copy up the kernel image and System.map to the
> >/boot directory and run lilo to update the boot strap and go for it!
> >As elaborate as it sounds, it has worked well for me probably 98% of
> >the time.
> >
> >Sounds redundant and maybe old hat but this works for me.
> >
> >On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:20:49PM -0400, Jack Mandez wrote:
> >> well i am getting loads and loads of them and i am really really getting
> >> frustrated.
> >> i have been trying for a couple of days now to compile the damned thing and
> >> if it isn't one thing its another.
> >> okay so here is what i tried.
> >> just for the hell of it, the only thing i did was to
> >> patch speakup into the kernel no other modifications.
> >> answered the appropriate questions in the configuration file with make
> >> oldconfig
> >> make dep
> >> make bzImage
> >> make modules
> >> wait.wait.wait.
> >> get unresolved symbols all over the place, and eventually it stops
> >> 
> >> with _instmod_post error1
> >> 
> >> 
> >> any ideas what i am doing wrong? this seems streight forward but obviously
> >> i am not doing something right
> >> 
> >
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