Bug 144070 – alsa-driver ebuild not critical enough about kernel config

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description kalium 2006-08-15 19:44:19 UTC]

There is a module mismatch between modules provided by alsa-driver and alsa modules provided by the kernel. Example: alsa sound driver triggers loading of kernel alsa rtctimer/timer.ko module(s) and, of course, fails because they don't match against the timer modules provided by the alsa-driver package.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-08-15 22:56:14 UTC]

Don't see any conflicts here, you'll need to be more specific about the modules I'm afraid.

[Comment 2 kalium 2006-08-16 06:33:21 UTC]

Just make sure you remove every kernel module that gets installed via the alsa-driver package.

[Comment 3 kalium 2006-08-16 06:36:54 UTC]

How to reproduce the problem:

configure the ALSA driver within the kernel and enable the specific parts as modules. Enable timer, rtc timer etc. Install the kernel. Then install the alsa-driver. Then use modprobe snd-intel8x0 to load the driver and it will complain about unresolved symbols and the like because it tries to load the kernel's timer/rtc timer modules etc. instead of the ones installed by the alsa-driver package.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-08-16 07:32:07 UTC]

Which alsa-driver version are you talking about?  just bail out if sound support is configured in kernel. Attach the offending kernel .config and reopen then.