[CLUE-Tech] Kernel and sound problems

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 06:37:44 MDT 2004


On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 02:51:47 -0700 (PDT), mike havlicek
<mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think this is distro independent ...
> 
> Although the current system I am fussing with is
> running Fedora 2. I have found that my sound doesen't
> work with the Fedora Core 2 release (kernel 2.6.X). It
> did work out of the box with Core 1 (kernel 2.4.X) .
> It has been a while since I have built kernels ... (
> pretty much stopped after modules were working ...
> used to compile the new ones off hydra as they came
> out for several years :)
> 
> Things have changed :)
> 
> I downloaded (the latest at the time) 2.6.8.1 off
> kernel.org and tried to build. Cutting to the chase
> the module for my soundcard gives me unrecognized
> symbol errors when I try to insmod it. It is wierd
> that the card is detected at all if the driver doesn't
> work ?
> 
> The gnome tools indicate that I have a C-Media
> Electronics Inc, model : CM8738 "card" that should use
> the snd-cmipci module ... It is built on the
> motherboard ...
> 
> I guess the bigger question is can I revert back to a
> 2.4 kernel where the soundcard worked ? The "upgrade"
> pretty much eliminated all of my 2.4 stuff.
> 
> -Mike
> 
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