Re: When will we see alsa-modules for 2.4.20?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Joe Emenaker wrote:

> Is there a reason why we haven't seen ALSA modules for kernel 2.4.20,
> yet?
>
> I've got my laptop set to boot to either 2.4.19 or 2.4.20 because 2.4.19
> has ALSA modules for my soundcard but no support for my USB midi
> interface. Conversely, 2.4.20 now has the usb-midi.o driver built-in,
> but I can't get ALSA going.
>
> 1 - There don't seem to be any modules in stable or unstable.
>
> 2 - I've come across some really verbosely-named one out there called
> something like alsa-modules_2.4.20-10.0.0-Custom.blah.blah.blah.deb.
> However, that doesn't work with the stock 2.4.20-686 kernel. I get a
> bunch of unresolved symbols.
>
> 3 - I've tried compiling my own, using the ALSA driver source and the
> 2.4.20-686 kernel source (after copying the config-2.4.20-686 file from
> /boot into the kernel source tree as .config, for whatever it's worth),
> and I got even *more* unresolved symbols when I tried to depmod those
> modules.
>
> Does *anybody* have ALSA working with 2.4.20?
>
> - Joe

No solution for you, but simply commiseration. I too have been waiting 
for this package several weeks, for my attempt at building the modules 
failed miserably also.

Kent