Gene Heskett wrote: > I note that I'm getting quite a few error messages like this, although > the audio seems to be working: > > Apr 10 20:41:46 coyote kernel: ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:727: invalid > via82xx_cur_ptr, using last valid pointer > Apr 10 20:42:18 coyote last message repeated 52 times
This is a hardware bug in VIA's chips. > Do I need to add an alsa driver re-install section to my kernel > builder script? Only if you compile the alsa-driver package separately. > In that event, where in this sequence should it be inserted? > > 1. set VER > 2. make clean > 3. make bzimage > 4. do all the vmlinuz cp'ing and System.map relinking including the > keeping of a one generation old version for recovery purposes > 5. make modules > 6. do the mv'ing of the current /lib/modules/kernel.version to > kernel.version-old > 7. make modules-install > 8. depmod At the end. > It seems to me that since the driver install actually works in the > kernel tree, any alsa additions inserted in the above pseudo-script > really should be in front of the "make bzImage". Is this assumption > correct? No. When you use the ALSA in the kernel, it's compiled together with the rest of the kernel. When you compile it as separate package, its "make install" copies the module to the kernel's module directory. > Also, there have been messages on lkml that indicate that no one > should have a working simlink on their system called /usr/src/linux, > only /usr/src/linux-2.6 should link to the kernel being built. > > What is the "alsa" stand on this point? Does it demand a working link > to the src tree of the currently running kernel named > '/usr/src/linux'? ALSA's configure script gets the source of the currently running kernel from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build. HTH Clemens ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
