On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Flavio Costa <flavio.cdc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Xavier <shiningxc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:32 AM, David C. Rankin >> <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > 03:26 alchemy:~/dt/kdm/themes> ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.31- >> > ARCH/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko >> > ls: cannot access /lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda- >> > intel.ko: No such file or directory >> > >> > 03:26 alchemy:~/dt/kdm/themes> pacman -Q kernel26 | grep snd-hda-intel >> > You have mail in /var/mail/david >> > >> >> Maybe you also need to understand what you are doing and what the >> commands mean instead of brainless copy/paste. >> >> if /lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko does >> not exist, you need to go all the way up to /lib/modules to see what >> exist, if anything at all. >> You can also just 'find /lib/modules' to display all files in there. >> >> and pacman -Q kernel26 tells you whether kernel26 is installed or not. >> It's probably a good idea to check that too, maybe you removed it ? >> >> You also need to check running kernel (uname -r) matches the one installed. >> > > I was under the impression he was not using a custom kernel (since he didn't > mentioned) that why I didn't bother to check. > > That is possible but in that case, reinstalling kernel26 will not really help :) He needs to fix his custom kernel instead. >> >> If you want to check which files are inside kernel26 , you have to do : >> pacman -Ql kernel26 >> >> pacman -Ql kernel26 | grep snd-hda-intel >> would be much more interesting and meaningful than >> pacman -Q kernel26 | grep snd-hda-intel >> which was just a small typo or overlook of Flavio. >> > > Indeed it was a typo. > > I image /lib/modules contains some stuff, otherwise his system would be > totally f***'ed up and prolly wouldn't boot (or just would have no devices > like network cards working at all, which doesn't appear to be the case). > Actually , it is possible to build a kernel with everything built-in and no modules, isn't it ? In that case, you can have a perfectly working system with nothing in /lib/modules :) But yeah, I doubt David did that. And if he did it (correctly), he would still have sound.
