On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 05:55:18PM -0500, Gregory Davis wrote: > Hello, I recently upgraded to modutils 2.4.10 and my kernel to 2.4.13. I > compiled the ALSA modules without a hitch. When I try to modprobe them, I > get an error message saying that the modules have no license and the kernel > will be tainted.
It's a warning message, not an error. It's because the older ALSA drivers don't tell modutils that they're licensed under GPL. > I don't like the sound of that (no pun), but after that the > sound runs fine. Is this a side effect of the 0.5.x drivers being obsoleted? > I havn't tried the 0.9-beta drivers. The kernel tainting is that new that only the ALSA CVS version has the proper licensing tag. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
