[lug] audio dies after applying latest redhat kernel

[Hugh Brown]

The modules are precompiled for the architecture and I wasn't using
alsa.  This is the first time in several upgrades that this has happened
(I run a stock redhat kernel).

Hugh

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 16:26, D. Stimits wrote:
> Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> > FYI,
> >
> > I updated all my packages against those in the redhat updates dir on
> > their ftp server.
> >
> > After rebooting because of upgrading to the 2.4.18-17 kernel from the
> > 2.4.18-10 kernel, my audio died.  The modules loaded fine, but
> > everything that tried to play would either play and nothing would come
> > out of the speakers (e.g. ogg123), or they would block (xmms).  I
> > downgraded and audio works fine again.
> >
> Anything that depends on the kernel (basically hardware drivers and 
> modules) has to be recompiled after reconfiguring or altering the 
> kernel, with a few exceptions. If you use ALSA, you can be doubly sure 
> that recompiling is necessary, where the kernel is configured to work 
> with it, and then the ALSA itself would have to be recompiled.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com
> 
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