Has anyone gotten a 2.6 Kernel to build?

[Simon Slaytor]

Hi John,

Yes your right mod-init-tools did the trick for me. In regard to the
sound, right from the outset I had problems with the DMA driver under
2.4, same old story one minute Kudzu is adding it then it's taking it
away and regardless of what I did it simply wouldn't work.

In a fit of madness I installed an old Sound Blaster PCI 128 (Ess1373)
card. Under 2.4 and OSS it worked but obviously suffered from
DMA/Interrupt driven driver problems, static / distorted sound etc.

My main reason for installing 2.6 was to try ALSA (Yes I know I could
have under 2.4 but where's the fun in that) but under 2.6 it's fully
integrated.

Now under 2.6 using the ALSA driver / sub system for the sound card all
I can say is WOW! perfect sound. I have also enabled OSS emulation for
some of my older programs that don't do ALSA and they all work like a
charm.

Give it a try you won't be disappointed.

Regards

Simon

P.S. I build the sound module into the Kernel, initially because I had
problems with the old mod tools. But after that found that it just seems
to 'work' better that way. 



On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 00:34, John Lannon wrote:
> I needed a new module-init-tools.  Once I got that the
> make modules_install step worked fine, and my
> QM_MODULES messages during boot went away.  Now if I
> could only figure out how to get sound to work. 
> Anyone know the difference between 2.4 sound and 2.6
> sound?  ALSA?
> 
> --- Simon Slaytor <sslaytor@talk21.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Yes I'm running a stock kernel.org 2.6.3 kernel on
> > my PM7500 G4 450. I
> > had to do some mucking about, firstly by ensuring
> > Virtual Servers was
> > fully disabled and then with the new modprobe utils
> > to eliminate
> > problems with a QM_MODULES message at start.
> > 
> > But apart from that everything works like a charm.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Simon
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 01:48, John Lannon wrote:
> > > I've been trying to get a 2.6.3-benh kernel to
> > build. 
> > > I based my config on the pmac_defconfig, with the
> > > microtek support loaded into the kernel.  The
> > kernel
> > > builds fine (after I added a ipt_TCPMSS.c and
> > > ipt_TCPMSS.h files), but the module_install step
> > > errors out.  The kernel boots and even supports
> > the
> > > scanner (microtek slimscan C6), but there is no
> > sound
> > > support at all.  I would like to get this working
> > > correctly, because 2.6.3 appears to boot up faster
> > and
> > > usb correctly ids my scanner (which it didn't do
> > in
> > > either 2.4.22-2g nor 2.4.25-benh).
> > > 
> > > I was wondering if anyone has built any flavor of
> > 2.6
> > > and its modules and if so, any config files that
> > work.
> > >  I trying to get this working on a 1 GHz eMac. 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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