[Cialug] Fragile sound support in Debian

[Renegade Muskrat]

Thanks for the response. After sending my initial message in this 
thread i found some newsgroup postings (i think to debian-users, though 
that may be incorrect) about lots of people finding the same problem 
with the most recent kernel upgrade to Sarge. It turns out that some 
patches were applied to the kernel that causes its symbol table to 
change, which broke lots of external modules. People were complaining 
most about alsa and nvidia modules. Since it is a known bug (i think 
classified as release-critical) it will probably be fixed soon. Once it 
is fixed, i think i'll hold the kernel and alsa packages so this 
doesn't happen again. When sound has been broken before it has usually 
been fixed within a week or two, so i wouldn't expect to have to wait 
much longer. If i do, then i may try building alsa manually. So far 
i've been avoiding building anything manually because i don't want to 
subvert the packaging system (i've done that before on several 
non-Debian systems and eventually ran into problems; since i'm planning 
on keeping the current installation for several years i don't want to 
do anything that would cause problems later).

 >	ALSA has to be built to match the kernel you are using.  It seems 
that
 >you are upgrading the kernel without having a matching version of 
alsa
 >to go with.  Just get the alsa source package and build a version of 
the
 >package to match your kernel.
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