From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: alsa configure/install bug Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:01:37 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20020624143111.B1332@pizzashack.org> <20020625140206.B13917@pizzashack.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20020625140206.B13917@pizzashack.org> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Derek D. Martin" Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:02:06 -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote: > > > please elaborate your prolbem. what says modprobe? > > The problem is that if the alsa modules are not installed in > /lib/modules//misc, modprobe can't find them to load them. Once > they are installed there, everything works fine. This is as it was > with the 0.9.something beta something that I was using before this, > also... meaning that when I installed the beta drivers previously, > they installed in the misc directory (with out me telling them to do > so specifically, as far as I can remember), and everything worked > fine. can you check where the files are copied to? just look at what "make install-modules" shows. if it were /lib/modules/preferred, then this is a special handling in alsa-driver's configure script for rh-5.1. if this directory exists, configure will use this location in prior to others. perhaps this doesn't match any longer with the recent redhat releases. if so, we should remove this workaround. > Is it possible that this is due to the version of modutils that I > have, and not related to the kernel at all? This is with Red Hat's > modutils-2.4.13-0.7.1 rpm... this looks fine. > > what happens if you run "depmod -ae"? > > Well, I set the command line for configure to place them in the misc > directory, so everything is working now. There is no output from > depmod -ae, but presumably there would be had I allowed the drivers to > be installed in the kernel/sound directories? kernel/sound directory must be checked by modprobe. all normal kernel modules are installed under kernel directory. ciao, Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber Inc. Don't miss the IM event of the season | Special offer for OSDN members! JabConf 2002, Aug. 20-22, Keystone, CO http://www.jabberconf.com/osdn