RE: ? using "make-kpkg" for modules ?

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

On 03-May-99 rich wrote:
>> You need to do some tweaking to get sound support to work properly as
>> a module.  If you don't do anything special, a read request on
>> /dev/audio tells the kernel to try to get sound support, so it loads
>> the 'sound' module.  Since there's no module installed that can
>> provide actual audio data, the read fails.
>> 
>> My /etc/modutils/sound contains:
>> 
>> post-install soundcore modprobe -ks sb
>> post-install sb modprobe -ks adlib_card
>> options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
>> options adlib_card io=0x388
>> 
>> This has modprobe install the sb module when the kernel loads the
>> soundcore module, and then loads the adlib_card module after that.  It 
>> also specifies correct I/O, IRQ, and DMA information for the modules,
>> which is essential for them to work correctly.
> 
> 

Ok here goes, blow by blow:

make menuconfig and setup as usual (if you do make xconfig that is fine too)
while in config, go into the sound section and enable the modules for the sound
items needed

do make-kpkg kernel_image (add --revision if desired) <-- this builds kernel
and modules

install the kernel

cd /etc/modutils and make the sound file as shown above then run update-modules
(both as root)

cd /etc and edit conf.modules, make sure auto is the uncommented

reboot

all should be well

as to the make-kpkg as root thing, I simply run sudo make-kpkg and I never
become root.  fakeroot has not worked for me here.