On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 12:18, James Sparenberg wrote: > ... > > Of course, since I still don't have sound for some totally unknown > > reason, I'm not thrilled. Granted I am going against Mandrake's > > instructions by installing a cooker component on a 9.0 system, but since > > that was required to get the system to work at all I don't feel like I > > have a choice in the matter. The real puzzle to me is why reverting back > > to the old kernel didn't restore sound (already checked alsamixer). > > Dang just thought of this. Check the symlinks in /boot vs the > requirments in your lilo.conf. I've noticed a number of times that when > I install a new kernel from cooker it moves vmlinuz from pointing to the > old vmlinuz-xxxxxx to the new one. Now since the default kernel (linux) > is looking at lilo and booting vmlinuz initrd.img. You actually are > booting the same kernel in both cases. I know this sounds convoluted as > heck but if you look into /boot it will clear up as to what I mean. > > James
It's the new kernel alright -- didn't have to muck with symlinks, but its dmesg output was different and the working/non-working sets were different. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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