From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: questions for alsa-devel Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:29:19 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <200210021157.g92Bvvk12578@op.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Thierry Vignaud Cc: Paul Davis , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Hi, At Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:17:10 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > Takashi Iwai writes: > > > > 2) i recently compiled rc3 on a mandrake 8.2 system. everything > > > went smoothly. when i went to modprobe, i got messages suggesting > > > to me that there a mismatch between the kernels and the ALSA > > > modules with respect to symbol versioning. (several missing > > > symbols, all with versions). i've looked through the archives and > > > tried google, but i can't see how to fix this or if something else > > > is going on. > > 1) "make mrproper" should be the first step when recompiling a kernel > from the kernel-source package since it has previously be used to > compile our various kernel (up, smp, enterprise [smp+highmem], > secure, linus (no patches), BOOT [for drakx installer]). > > most people don't do it and have problems. > > 2) alter the extraversion in main Makefile so that you don't screw up > the mandrake kernel if you make something wrong (there's a rescue > on the first cd but just avoid troubles) > eg: in mdk9.0, we now alter it by default ("EXTRAVERSION = -16mdk" > became "EXTRAVERSION = -16mdkcustom") > > these 2 items should prevent versionning problems regarding modules > > 3) you can then steal the mdk kernel config from /boot/config (link on > /boot/config-2.4.....) it would be nice to collect such info for each distribution and put them on alsa's web page. > 4) note that if you boot with a kernel with alsa-0.9.0, all your alsa > apps won't work unless you use them in oss emulation mode. why? is there any incompatibility? Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf