Re: module dependencies
Ian Keith Setford <ians@jove.acs.unt.edu> writes:
| > Hmm, did you run 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' after building
| > the kernel? When you ran 'depmod -a' did it give any errors? depmod is the
| > prog that builds the modules.dep file in /lib/modules/2.0.34/ (On a Deb
| > system, depmod should be run at every boot). On my 2.0.34 system (Creative
| > SB 16 PnP), sound.o has *no* dependencies on it (it is standalone), so it
| > almost sounds like sound.o was built wrong (or sound.o isn't in the
| > modules.dep file).
| > When do you get this error? At boot-up? When running modprobe?
|
| Yes, I have compiled 4 times. I have run, make dep;make clean; make zlilo
| then, make modules; make modules_install. The kernel and module builds
| gave no errors. I see the dependency error when I try to use a sound
| device. If I try to run xmix, for instance, I get the dependency error.
| When I run depmod -a, I get a listing of all my modules, all with
| unresolved symbols. Do you suspect it is the build? I could try to build
| 2.0.33 or 2.0.32 I guess. On my 2 other machines I have Sounblaster 16
| PnP running with no problems.
My suggestion, and, I believe, the official Debian suggestion as well,
is to start using the make-kpkg utility (part of the kernel-package in
dselect). IMHO it makes the whole kernel building/module
building/kernel installation/module installation process a lot
easier. With it you produce a kernel*.deb file which, when you install
it, does everything you need, PLUS it runs lilo-config for you, PLUS
it sets up your system to run the necessary "depmod -a" for you on the
next reboot. Here's all it takes to get everything going:
cd /usr/src/linux
make <xconfig|menuconfig|config>
make-kpkg --revision mysys.1 kernel_image
make-kpkg --revision mysys.1 modules_image
cd /usr/src
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.0.3x_mysys.1_i386.deb
(I think it runs lilo-config here)
dpkg -i <whatever>-modules-2.0.3x+mysys.1_i386.deb
(Here it warns you that you need to reboot to get the module
dependencies right)
DONE!
The second "make-kpkg" and "dpkg -i" are only necessary, *I believe*,
if you have some extra modules. In my case it was the PCMCIA
modules. The modules that are part of the kernel are in the
kernel-image*.deb file. But read the make-kpkg documentation to find
out what you really need to do.
Good Luck!
Gary
--
Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
Reply to: