On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 09:25 PM, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I have wondered but then dismissed this. My new, fresh reinstall of > 8.1 (6th > or 7th time in 3 days) properly recognizes and uses my 3c589 > card...after I > dumped the default dhcpcd install and replaced it with > dhcp-common/dhcp-client rpms, that is. The big stopper now is STILL > sound. > I had perfectly working sound before this whole mess (started and caused > repeatedly with attempts to use or build ANY form of 2.4.17 kernel) > when I > had a nice, self-built 2.4.13 kernel. I WANT IT BACK!! > > Know where I can find the kernel-source for the Mandrake 2.4.13 > kernel? It > worked beautifully...I had simply hoped (wrongly it turns out) that > 2.4.17 > would be improved even more. Boy was I wrong on that. That is the most > miserably broken kernel I've ever had the displeasure to mess with. > Even if > you install the precompiled binary it doesn't work...and it even > produces > unknown symbol messages for two of its own modules (minix.o and > sysv.o)! To > add insult to injury, it doesn't even recognize that it has its own > pcmcia > modules like i82365 and ds. They are CLEARLY extant right where they > are > supposed to be but the kernel complains that they do not exist when > trying to > start pcmcia! Gee-aaw! Building it myself in various ways didn't fix > the > minix.o and sysv.o symbol problem and it certainly didn't do jack for > pcmcia > or sound. > > The whole reason I have been wanting to get past the 2.4.8-26mdk 8.1 > kernel > is because it doesn't work with my soundcard...a simple, old, > never-changing > ess solo1. This worked with with all the 2.2.x kernels and with > 2.4.13, just > not with 2.4.8 or 2.4.17. > > I'm getting real irate about the whole damn thing after dicking with > this and > that, trashing my system totally (the 2.4.17 kernels in any form > installed on > my system broke it so badly that it was easier to reinstall from > scratch than > to try to untangle the mess.
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