Comment 18 for bug 107821

Pietro:
many thanks for offering your help, I'll keep you informed about my proceeding!

Udo:
Unfortunately this time I was too much "optimistic" as:
1. I have no idea about X anymore, Y is 27.
2. I have no precise idea of what changed exactly (ehm...) : I simply updated on Mon Jun 7.
3. I got rid of all built sources of patched alsa that made the system originally work.

Now about your remarks:
0. I untarred and recompiled alsa from scratch (from a cleaned directory)
1. Do I need to specify -with-kernel? Would'n the currently kernel headers be used?
2. Do you confirm that I need to recompile alsa drivers every time kernel changes?

The problem is that even if I am pretty confident with compiling and installing software, I am a
newby about kernel modules. In this case debugging is very hard to perform as kernel panic occurs
without a single line dumped into /var/log or console.

I am thinking of re-installing from scratch, but this should be really the very last option...
The real question maybe would be: what this behavior could be due to?
Could it be useful to load the module with single_cmd option?

thanks
roberto