Re: Ugly sarge upgrade -- kernel 2.4.27-2 > 2.4.27-6

[Jonathan Kaye <jonathan.kaye@univie.ac.at>]

Michael Murphy wrote:

> > Hi Michael,
> > I guess you didn't notice my posting on this list dated 24/12/04
> > with the subject alsa mismatch... Anyway as Thomas Hood pointed out
> > this is known as kernel bug #284356. I would suggest the following:
> > 1. apt-get update then apt-get upgrade then apt-get dist-upgrade
> > until you have the latest versions of your packages.
> > 2. Get the source for the alsa drivers module and compile it and
> > then intall it.
> > This worked for me and my alsa and the rest of sarge is purring like
> > a kitten.
>
>
> Thank you, Jonathan.  I had missed the post and the pointer to bug
> #284356.  I guess I'm going to have to learn how to build packages
> the 'debian way' sooner than I'd guessed ;)

At this point let me suggest aptitude as a substitute for apt-get. 
Running aptitude (just that command) from the command line gets you into 
the aptitude gui which I personally hate but most people seem to like 
it. It has a number of advantages over apt-get which you can google if 
you're curious.
If you're using kde, try kpackage also. Gnome has synaptic but I prefer 
kpackage. I find it quite useful so see what's going on. I then use 
aptitude to do the actual installations.
> You mention doing an apt-get dist-upgrade.  Again, I'm new to debian,
> but wouldn't this be necessary only if I were going from one release
> (stream) to another?  I installed sarge using the netinst cd and have
> only sarge repos in my sources.list.  Thus far, I've been using
> dselect and currently have the kernel packages on hold.  
dist-upgrade is a bit more agressive than upgrade. It will remove 
unneeded packages but always asks you first. It's for the same stream; 
not a new one. I use it to make sure that all my current packages are 
absolutely upto date.

> You say that you rebuilt the source for the alsa drivers *after* you'd
> upgraded the kernel?  Does this mean that you *didn't* experience the
> extreme slow-down that I did?  Were I to upgrade, I don't think that
> my computer would be able to build anything (in under a week's time,
> that is).  
No, changing 2.4.27-2 to -6 didn't (noticeably) effect the performance. 
No slow-downs extreme or otherwise. I'm mystified by your problem but 
maybe wiser heads than mine on this list can answer that.
Cheers,
Jonathan