soundcore.o not found

[JNeuhoff]

When booting from a Knoppix 3.4 CD, the soundcard only seems to work when using the kernel 2.4.26, not so however with kernel 2.6.5. When using 2.4.26 it sees it as an I82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller. When using 2.6.5 the 'sndconfig' utility always comes up with the following error message:

Soundcore.o was not found in the module search path

However, there is a file called 'soundcore.ko' in directory 'KNOPPIX/lib/modules/2.6.5/kernel/sound'. Is the 2.6.5 kernel looking for the wrong soundcard module? How can I get it to use the correct driver?

J.Neuhoff

[user unknown]

No. It's not the kernel.

When you compile a .c or .cc -file, the output is by default an '.o' file - aka 'object file'.
Since kernel 2.6 the kernel-object-files are named '.ko'.

So the kernel is looking for the correct .ko -file, but sndconfig is looking for the wrong one.

I don't know whether a new sound-configuration script is generated for linux 2.6 and how it is called. Perhaps you don't need it anymore?

I don't know whether changing the sndconfig-tool to use '.ko' instead of '.o' is:
- possible (it's a binary, you would need to find the sources)
- helpful at all.