On Monday 01 September 2008 15:45:56 Xav' wrote:
> 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.
The kernel oss is now deprecated
>
> > 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
For laptops you could eyeball the wiki for they have there a complete setup
for most of the laptops. Also on the wiki you'll find a nice oss4 tutorial.
The first advantage of oss4 it's that is soooo much easier to setup.
Also for further help you might try to be more specific: what laptop model?
what sound card because maybe by chance some of us already did setup the same
model with success.
