Hi Jos, > Thanks for your response. I've installed Debian-Etch 4.0 r1 initially. > Now I have upgraded to Lenny, by editing sources.list and included > non_free too in it. >
I just saw this on Debian planet this morning ;) http://wiki.debian.org/EtchAndAHalf > But the problems that I had in Debian-Etch remains the same in Lenny > too. Now I'm trying to recompile alsa module. as per Franklin's reply. > I'm trying an easy method, by downloading and recompiling kernel 2.6.23. > The link given by Franklin says that the patch is included in 2.6.23. > Do you use linux-source package from Debian and make-kpkg? If not, I suggest you do so. I use: # make-kpkg --initrd --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image modules_image > After compiling the kernel 2.6.23, I got a Kernel panic also. > dev/console: no such file or directory. I'm getting this error whenever > I try to compile a newer kernel version than the distribution provides. > But if I mount the initrd file system manually, I can see /dev/console > in it. I don't know why it cannot be detected. I remember that I started > getting this error from 2.6 kernel onwards, in all my PCs that I have > installed Debian. I will not get this kernel panic if the kernel version > <= version of the kernel provided by the distribution. > There is already Debian packages for 2.6.24 here: # Experimental kernel deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main Maybe it could be worth to give them a try. Regards, Cyril Jaquier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
