[PLUG] Errors with SB PCI 128 on kernel 2.4.4

["Gregson Helledy" <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

After some frustration with Mandrake 8, I went out and bought
SuSE 7.2 personal because I'd read that they do the most QC, making
sure things work.

The default kernel is their customization of 2.4.4, but they also
offer a custom 2.2.19 as backup.  Under 2.4.4, support for sound 
is loaded in as a module.  When going into KDE, I'd see errors on 
the console indicating that insmod couldn't load the sound module.
Sound was either nonexistent or filled with screeches and static.
On someone's advice (alt.os.linux.suse) I tried the 2.2 kernel--no
problems!

Taking the brute-force approach (and also wanting to learn about
kernel compilation) I decided to compile my own (2.4) kernel, 
optimized for my Athlon and with the es1371 (appropriate for 
this card) driver built in.
I go to "make bzImage" and it dies with error messages:

drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o: In function `es1371_probe':
drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o(.text+0x5ce5): undefined reference to
`gameport_register_port'
drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o: In function `es1371_remove':
drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o(.text+0x5e2e): undefined reference to
`gameport_unregister_port'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

For what it's worth, yes the card does have a gameport, and there's
even a joystick plugged into it--not that this should matter.

I checked the on-cd documentation about the driver, but it didn't
seem to relate to this.

Since it fails both as a module and won't compile in, I'd guess there's
a conflict between the driver and the 2.4 kernel.

Incidentally, if I stick with the 2.2 kernel, what am I really losing
as a home user?  I'd like to use a modern kernel on principle but
if the benefits aren't there then I may just take the easy way out.

Greg


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