tlug: New Kernel + XEmacs = BAD medicine (sound-related?)

[Matt Gushee <matt@example.com>]

Hi Folks--

As part of my never-ending quest to get my sound card working, I
compiled a new 2.0.34 kernel yesterday. It seems to work, and I
finally have sound (hallelujah!), but there's a serious catch. Twice
yesterday, I booted up with the new kernel, started up XEmacs, and was 
typing away when -- POOF! The system was hung ... couldn't do anything 
with the keyboard or mouse. So I had to do a hard reset. Ouch.

What I *think* may have happened is that I caused an error in XEmacs,
and it tried to make a noise ... and something screwed-up in the sound 
config locked up the system. But it could be something completely
different, of course. Netscape seems to run OK; haven't tried any
other major applications, but for obvious reasons, I'm reluctant to
experiment with this.

Some possibly relevant info:

My system is RedHat 5.0, or was. Actually, I've updated so many
packages it's probably closer to 5.1.

Hardware: Pentium II - 233, 32 MB Ram, NVidia RIVA 128 video card w/
4MB VRAM, Acer AW35 sound card (CS4237 chip ... which supposedly works 
w/ with the cs4232 driver); ATAPI CD-ROM, unremarkable IDE HD, no SCSI 
devices, SMC EPIC 100 Ethernet card.

I compiled sound support as a module. The sound card needs to be set
up with isapnptools, which I did.

When I did 'make modules_install', there was an error message saying
'sound_syms.o' doesn't exist. This has happened to me before, and I've
looked it up in Deja News and found several people asking about it and 
nobody answering.

Maybe related to the above: at boot time, there were several
'undefined kernel symbol' error messages, all involving sound drivers.

Any clues?


Matt Gushee
Oshamanbe, Hokkaido
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