Re: [Alsa-user] Upgrading Alsa on RHEL without recompiling kernel?

[Gianluca C. <gia...@gm...>]

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>
> The problem I'm facing now is that insmod complains about some
> "Wrong module format" (paraphrased, I'm writing from home now).
> I found many refferences to this error which explain that my modules
> package is too old - but as far as I can tell I have the latest one for
> RHEL 4.
>
> So this is were I'm stuck now.

   take in mind that I took step 1] in that page, which is probably the onl=
y
working method for 2.6
The error you are talking about seems to occur if the kernel you are runnin=
g
(the new one) doesn't match the header files you built the alsa module
against. Is there anything interesting in the output to dmesg, and are you
sure the package of your kernel and the kernel headers match? If you have
more than one kernel header package you might need to adjust the symbolic
link in /usr/src.
 When you have your new kernel source tree, you have to "make" it according
with your desired configuration; you cannot simply run compilation of alsa
kernel drivers specifying the kernel source tree of an unconfigured
kernel....
And also you have to DESELECT ALSA support in this kernel, otherwise you
will mix the headers files form 1.0.6 in kernel and the ones in 1.0.9(or
10rc2) in your separate directory.


> That's the kind of thing I'd like to avoid - I'd rather keep the kernel t=
o
> the
> control of the centralized home-built system configuration scripts.

  I don't know if you can, as we are talking of kernel module support
already included in standard configuration, for which you want to change
version... other input is welcome...

Thanks for your input.
>
> --Amos


bye,
Gianluca