On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:50:58 +0000, Ray wrote:

> oh... does this mean that by recompiling my kernel I broke ALSA and have
> to recompile it as well and that's why it's not working?
>
> would this be a shared library thing or kernel interface or ??? - I'm
> still confused how ALSA actually loads if it's not loaded in any rc
> scripts and not compiled into the kernel.
>
> Ray
> (trying to both fix the problem and understand how it all works at the
> same time.)

It is because the new kernel can't use the old modules. Slackware will
try to load the modules on start-up through the /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa script.
Read that and it will explain all.

Mike