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

[Matt Gushee <matt@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
 > >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Gushee <matt@example.com> writes:
 > 
 >     Matt> As part of my never-ending quest to get my sound card
 >     Matt> working, I compiled a new 2.0.34 kernel yesterday. It seems
 >     Matt> to work, and I finally have sound (hallelujah!), but there's
 >     Matt> a serious catch. Twice yesterday, I booted up with the new
 >     Matt> kernel, started up XEmacs, and was typing away when -- POOF! 
 >     Matt> The system was hung ... couldn't do anything with the
 >     Matt> keyboard or mouse. So I had to do a hard reset. Ouch.
 > 
 > Version of XEmacs?

Oh, that was dumb of me. 20.3, home-built w/ glibc 2.0.5 (now using 2.0.7).

 > Did you try switching virtual consoles?

Yes, I tried that, tried killing X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, tried
rebooting with Ctrl-Alt-Del ... the keyboard was completely dead. No
Caps Lock, no Num Lock, no nothing. All I could do was turn off the power.

 > Did you try telneting in over the net?

I don't run telnetd. I suppose I could, if that would be a good test strategy.

 >     Matt> My system is RedHat 5.0, or was. Actually, I've updated so
 >     Matt> many packages it's probably closer to 5.1.
 > 
 > But with Red Hat, who knows what that means....  :-(

Indeed. 

 > I've had luck with
 > 
 > make modules; make modules; make modules_install

I'll try that.

 >     Matt> Maybe related to the above: at boot time, there were several
 >     Matt> 'undefined kernel symbol' error messages, all involving
 >     Matt> sound drivers.
 > 
 > I'd fix that before worrying about XEmacs or any other applications.
 > Any X program is capable of hanging your system if it grabs the X
 > server, but Emacsen are pretty polite.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Actually, I tried another build today,
and this time the crash came when I tried to start X Windows. So I
guess I better do something about the undefined kernel symbols, once I 
figure out how ... I've read and followed all the instructions I've
found so far, so I'm sort of mystified, but I'll keep looking, I
guess.

Matt Gushee
Oshamanbe, Hokkaido
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