On Saturday 02 May 2009 05:15:06 Martin McCormick wrote: > I have an etch system that has been running a 2.6.5 > kernel and it is time to upgrade it to something more modern. > The 2.6.5 kernel worked well but our organization is using VPN > so I need to update things so that vpnc will work. > > After a coworker convinced me to try a modular kernel > instead of building another one, I downloaded > what appears to be the newest kernel from debian.org: > > #aptitude install linux-image-2.6-686 > > This got a 2.6.18 modular kernel so I tried it. It > appears to work fine except for sound. My old kernel works > beautifully with alsa. The new kernel actually found the sound > card but then begin complaining that the sound device was busy > during the boot process. Game over for sound. > > Everything else appears fine. > > Is there any way to guide this process a bit to make the > sound work again? > > I now know the recommended way to build a custom kernel > so I could fall back to doing that again, but surely there is a > way to get the CS4236 sound chips matched up with the right > module. > > Fortunately, grub still points to the old kernel by > default for now so, for the time being, I am back to the 2.6.5 > kernel and sound pouring out of the speakers.:-) > > Martin McCormick
The cs4xx driver has indeed been removed from the debian kernel (some file missing copyright information i belive) you may download and compile the alsa modules by hand or (I think) you may use module-assistant to help you do this the “debian” way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
