Re: [gentoo-user] unknown symbol request_module

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On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:33:28 +0200, Roland Puntaier
<Roland.Puntaier@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am installing Gentoo on an older notebook of mine and have the
following
> problem:
>
> After a first try to make sound work, where I had OSS checked in the

For a first start, OSS is now deprecated, so you have to use ALSA instead
in the kernel.

> kernel configuration,
> I followed the gentoo alsa guide
>         http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
>
> But got a lot of "unknown symbol" entries at boot (viewed afterwards via
> dmesg).
> The first seems to be the reason for the others: unknown symbol
> request_module.
>
> request_module is defined in vmlinux (via "nm vmlinux | grep
> request_module")
> but not linked in soundcore.o ("nm soundcore.o | grep request_module"
says
>
> U(ndefined))
>
> Since request_module is needed to load kernel modules, no kernel modules
> can be loaded, and therefore symbols from such modules are not there.
> This leads to the other "unknown symbol" messages. So the question is,
why
> request_module does not get linked properly.
>
> What I already tried:
> I saved the .config and did
>         make mrproper
> and restored .config.
> Then
>         make && make modules_install
>
> But that did not help.
>
> Did somebody experience anything similar?
> Could somebody give me a hint how to solve this problem?

I think your .config file will help us more than you expect, and also the
output of your dmesg :)

> Thanks in advance.
> Cheers. Roland

Regards.

Xavier Parizet
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Xavier