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

[Adam Williams]

> > 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)

That helped.  Now -
[root@estate2 SPECS]# rpm --install
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/kernel-module-alsa-0.9.8-1.fr_2.4.20_27.9.i386.rpm
[root@estate2 SPECS]# /sbin/depmod -a
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.20-27.9/kernel/sound/snd.o

> > 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?

Lots of X issues.  GNOME won't even run.  Online update doesn't work. 
Red Carpet channels are empty.