[KLUG Members] ALSA with 2.4.20-27.9 and unresolved symbols

[Bruce Smith]

> I updated my RedHat 9 kernel, which fixed a couple of USB issues (and
> broke a couple of other things).  But this also means I needed to
> rebuild the ALSA modules.  Only they build with failed dependencies, 
> which doesn't make a while lot of sense.  Anyone using ALSA with
> 2.4.20-27.9?

I've had similar problems before.  A couple things for you to try.

Go to the kernel source directory, do a "make mrproper", load the
correct config for your arch type, (I use "load saved config" from 
make xconfig/menuconfig), then run a "make dep".  Then build the
alsa-modules.  The configs for all the different kernel arch'es are
saved in a subdirectory under the kernel source
(/usr/src/linux-2.4/config/ - or something like that)

If that doesn't work, try downloading a newer versions of the alsa SRPM.
(like from Fedora, and try the above step again.

> I could of course cut over to SuSe, but testing has turned up a couple
> of scarey problems which make me leary of doing that just yet - when I
> need my laptop to work.

Can you be more specific?

 - BS