On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:33:28 +0200, Roland Puntaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am installing Gentoo on an older notebook of mine and have the following > problem: > > After a first try to make sound work, where I had OSS checked in the
For a first start, OSS is now deprecated, so you have to use ALSA instead in the kernel. > kernel configuration, > I followed the gentoo alsa guide > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml > > But got a lot of "unknown symbol" entries at boot (viewed afterwards via > dmesg). > The first seems to be the reason for the others: unknown symbol > request_module. > > request_module is defined in vmlinux (via "nm vmlinux | grep > request_module") > but not linked in soundcore.o ("nm soundcore.o | grep request_module" says > > U(ndefined)) > > Since request_module is needed to load kernel modules, no kernel modules > can be loaded, and therefore symbols from such modules are not there. > This leads to the other "unknown symbol" messages. So the question is, why > request_module does not get linked properly. > > What I already tried: > I saved the .config and did > make mrproper > and restored .config. > Then > make && make modules_install > > But that did not help. > > Did somebody experience anything similar? > Could somebody give me a hint how to solve this problem? I think your .config file will help us more than you expect, and also the output of your dmesg :) > Thanks in advance. > Cheers. Roland Regards. Xavier Parizet -- Xavier
