Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:17:10 +0200,
> Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>
>>Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
>
I will write it up if people send me the info that needs to be included.
Like this thread.
What should the page be called though?
>
>
>>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
>
>
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