Re: Problems with kernel-image and Modules

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

> marked as uninstalled by dpkg's status file (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
> but vmlinuz-2.2.17 and some other 2.2.17 files are in /boot. The
> /lib/modules/2.2.17 is also in place. There is also a /vmlinuz.old
> symlink pointing to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17.

Those might be considered "configuration" files and removing a package
normally doesn't remove these. You could try "dpkg --purge
kernel-image-2.2.17..."


> Another problem: my /lib/modules/2.4.0/modules.dep file is empty, and
> modprobe always tells me that it can't find the module I try to load.
> I'm worried because i compiled sound support as modules, and i would
> like to have those modules loaded on demand, using default parameters
> (irq and so on), but i don't know the place to put those parameters.

Create a file in /etc/modutils with the necessary parameters. I don't
think the name is critical. Also, the file /etc/modules is simply a
"list" of the modules that should be loaded. Mine has entries like sb,
sound, uart401, etc, etc... Add the appropriate names for your sound
card. Finally, run "update-modules". That will add the entries of the
file you created in /etc/modutils to the file /etc/modules.conf. It
*should* also create your modules.dep file correctly. You are using the
correct version of modutils, right ??

Good luck!
Hall Stevenson