[arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules -> Gone?? (kernel bug?)

[Xavier]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Flavio Costa <flavio.cdc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:32 AM, David C. Rankin
>> <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > 03:26 alchemy:~/dt/kdm/themes> ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.31-
>> > ARCH/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
>> > ls: cannot access /lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-
>> > intel.ko: No such file or directory
>> >
>> > 03:26 alchemy:~/dt/kdm/themes> pacman -Q kernel26 | grep snd-hda-intel
>> > You have mail in /var/mail/david
>> >
>>
>> Maybe you also need to understand what you are doing and what the
>> commands mean instead of brainless copy/paste.
>>
>> if /lib/modules/2.6.31-ARCH/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko does
>> not exist, you need to go all the way up to /lib/modules to see what
>> exist, if anything at all.
>> You can also just 'find /lib/modules' to display all files in there.
>>
>> and pacman -Q kernel26 tells you whether kernel26 is installed or not.
>> It's probably a good idea to check that too, maybe you removed it ?
>>
>> You also need to check running kernel (uname -r) matches the one installed.
>>
>
> I was under the impression he was not using a custom kernel (since he didn't
> mentioned) that why I didn't bother to check.
>
>

That is possible but in that case, reinstalling kernel26 will not
really help :) He needs to fix his custom kernel instead.

>>
>> If you want to check which files are inside kernel26 , you have to do :
>> pacman -Ql kernel26
>>
>> pacman -Ql kernel26 | grep snd-hda-intel
>> would be much more interesting and meaningful than
>> pacman -Q kernel26 | grep snd-hda-intel
>> which was just a small typo or overlook of Flavio.
>>
>
> Indeed it was a typo.
>
> I image /lib/modules contains some stuff, otherwise his system would be
> totally f***'ed up and prolly wouldn't boot (or just would have no devices
> like network cards working at all, which doesn't appear to be the case).
>

Actually , it is possible to build a kernel with everything built-in
and no modules, isn't it ?
In that case, you can have a perfectly working system with nothing in
/lib/modules :)
But yeah, I doubt David did that. And if he did it (correctly), he
would still have sound.