On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Wesley Johnson wrote: > Compiling a custom kernel loses the ALSA drivers. > > I have spent 10 months without sound ( VIA8237 ) on my machine because ALSA > would not work. > I have discovered while working on another machine that compiling and > installing a new version of your compiler > will wipe out your ALSA drivers. That is not something that would be > obvious nor expected. All modules must be compiled with the same compiler that your kernel was compiled with. Alsa drivers are modules. So did you install a new compiler and then compile either the kernel or also with that new compiler? > > The documentation should definitely warn in INSTALL, such as >>> > > Compile and install ALSA drivers after customizing your kernel. Install of There is nothing wrong with that. You can compile and install alsa after customizing your kernel. > kernel modules will wipe out your > ALSA driver modules as it seems to clean the entire kernel modules directory > of everything. > If you change a kernel config and reinstall your kernel modules, you will > have to reinstall ALSA again > afterwards! If you recompile your kernel, you must recompile all modules as well, yes. Alsa is a set of kernel modules. > > > If anyone knows otherwise on this, please post a reply. > > Wesley Johnson > > > > > > > --- Get FREE High Speed Internet from USFamily.Net! -- http://www.usfamily.net/mkt-freepromo.html --- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
