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Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound



On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 16:36, Kent West wrote:

> "make-kpkg kernel_image" should be the only thing you have to do. It'll 
> compile the kernel and modules, put everything where it needs to be, 
> reconfigure lilo.conf to use the new kernel, and ask if you want to run 
> lilo to make the changes to the boot record. Then just reboot, and 
> voila! you're running a new kernel, hopefully with working sound.

actually, make-kpkg kernel_image builds a deb in /usr/src. You still
have to install it with dpkg -i kernel-image<version>.deb
If you have extra modules in /usr/src/modules (like, e.g., proprietary
nvidia kernel drivers) you need to do make-kpkg modules_image after
make-kpkg kernel_image has finished. This will build
/usr/src/kernel-modules-<version>.deb. dpkg -i it, too

Also make sure you have another way to boot than the new kernel: The old
one and/or a bootfloppy or bootcd.
Check if /etc/lilo.conf contains entries for both the old and the new
kernel. Run lilo and check the output. It should list at least two
kernels, the old and the new one.

Read the Debian FAQ, too, there's a section on kernel compiles.

Before you do all that, simply run modconf and see if you can insert the
modules from the stock debian kernel-image
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