[PlanetCCRMA] i586 install!

[Jonathan Segel]

On Jan 2, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 17:31 -0800, Jonathan Segel wrote:
>> On Dec 31, 2006, at 7:07 PM, planetccrma-request@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 18:18 -0800, Jonathan Segel wrote:
>>>> so i went back to trying to make an fc6 partition on my laptop.  
>>>> it's
>>>> weird. fc6 seems to work on my desktop machine (for the most part)
>>>> but on the laptop there is no alsa! i mean no /dev/dsp or /dev/snd,
>>>> no /proc/asound, no pcm anything. no /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound.
>>>> doesn't exist.
>>>>   alsa can't do anything without knowing where to go. is this an
>>>> alsa-1.0.12 issue?
>>>
>>> Hard to know. What sort of chipset or sound card do you have? Do
>>> you see any audio messages in the output of dmesg during the boot  
>>> process?
>>> What does /sbin/lspci see in your pci bus?
>>
>> oh boy. well, for any card. lspci shows the intel8x0 and the xilinx
>> hdsp thing, but dmesg ahs a ton of probs insmodding. every snd module
>> has an error showing unknown symbol . there is one telling dmesg,
>> snd: version magic '2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 SMP mod unload 686 REGPARM
>> 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1'
>> should be '2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 SMP mod unload 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS
>> gcc-4.1'
>>
>> this is my old p3 1.1ghz laptop....
>
> I've read that sometimes Fedora would install the i586 kernel  
> instead of
> the i686 kernel, probably this is what is happening to you.
>
> It is weird in the sense that even if it did, there should be no
> problems loading modules. It looks from what you say that the kernel
> modules do not match the kernel but that should be impossible as
> everything is built it. Did you try to install a newer version of alsa
> from source?
>
> Anyway, to see what you have installed:
>   rpm -q --queryformat "%{NAME} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}  %{ARCH}\n"  
> kernel
>
> They should be i686...
> Here's instructions on how to fix the problem:
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common


well how 'bout that. indeed it was all i586. i replaced packages. got  
source. building alsa 1.0.14rc1 now.
still no luck apparently. dmesg shows the same errors in every snd  
thing, unknown symbol.
no magic version error now though.
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