Re: alsa problem

[shatam bhattacharya]

>Now back to the thread: what is the output of lsmod after installing the
>new kernel ? It would be nice if you also attached a dmesg.

It still displays the same error messege.
ginie:# apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 349  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/12.3MB of archives. After unpacking 32.6MB will be used.
(Reading database ... 42964 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686 (from .../kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686_2.4.27-8_i386.deb) ...

You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.4.27-2-686)
This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use
initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial
Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for
booting).

  As a reminder, in order to configure LILO, you need
  to add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz
  stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf

I repeat, You need to configure your boot loader -- please read your
bootloader documentation for details on how to add initrd images.

If you have already done so, and you wish to get rid of this message,
please put
  "do_initrd = Yes"
in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Note that this is optional, but if you do not,
you will continue to see this message whenever you install a kernel
image using initrd.
Do you want to stop now? [Y/n]y
Ok, Aborting
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686_2.4.27-8_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686_2.4.27-8_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




Currently my system is using OSS, I also tried to compile the alsa system from source. Is there any way it can be done with out installing the kernel source for my install?
Shatam