Wesley Johnson wrote: > Compiling a custom kernel loses the ALSA drivers. See below. > > 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. > > The documentation should definitely warn in INSTALL, such as >>> > > Compile and install ALSA drivers after customizing your kernel. Install of > 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 anyone knows otherwise on this, please post a reply. > > Wesley Johnson > I just compiled a new custom kernel on this system (Fedora 9), and ALSA works just as well as it did before without a recompile. I did not change the compiler (as far as I know, I just take the updates as they come). The driver modules and library were custom compiled a few months ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
