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Re: Missing modules and the sound of silence



On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:39:49PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> 
> Hello!  I've been compiling a new kernel (2.2.17 on Potato)to
> allow for sound support; I've done it three times and each time
> it hasn't worked!  The steps I've followed are these (having
> unpacked the kernel source in a  directory off /usr/local/src..)
> 
> 1. make xconfig     set up what I want included in the kernel
> 2. make dep
> 3. make-kpkg clean
> 4. fakeroot /usr/bin/make-kpkg --revision=********* compile the kernel
> 5. make modules (tried make-kpkg modules_image here once but it
> didn't work)
> 6. dpkg -i kernelpackage.deb (this as root)
> 7. make modules_install
> 8. reboot

Skip steps 2, 5, and 7.  make-kpgk does all this for you.  The
"kernel_image" target makes the kernel and anything you chose to compile as
a module.

The "modules_image" target makes any extra modules that are not included in
the kernel and exist in /usr/src/modules.  Alsa and pcmcia are examples of
this (in my system anyway).  If you don't have anything in /usr/src/modules,
then no need to "make-kpkg modules_image"

> 
> After this process I get lots of messages at boot-up time saying
> that the modules have not been found.

Hm...  This sounds odd, because even though ran unnecessary steps, they
should not have drastically damaged anything.

> 
> Am I doing this wrong or is there something more I need to do?
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Glyn M
> 
> 
> 
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