Lately I upgrade to mandrake 10 , with kernel 2.6.3-8mdk, but the sound quality is in telephone quality , so I decide to get the kernel srpm from mandrake, in an attempt to compile the kernel myself and see if there is any difference.

After rpm --rebuild , i get a list of files (kernel-source, kernel-*.rpm,kernel-secure) which turns out to be a waste of time (2 days to be exact), because they are just a list of rpms that mandrake compile for specific configuration.

At the end I rpm -ivh kernel source, then do
make mrprob
make menuconfig
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
config the lilo

After reboot to the new kernel image :

I get to the point that I can hear the sound in good stero quality, But with the condition that I have to start mplayer to play something then I can play mp3 in xmms

I had notice there are some errors during the kernel boot up to , has anyone remember the command for getting the boot up message ?? ... I don't think it's

"dmesg" <-- it's the other one ... can't remember the name

From the fast scroll during the boot time , I got the chance of remember the 3 fail messages

1. can't umount /intrid <--- isn't that in /boot/intrid ?
2. can't find usb_ubi <--- or something similay to that
3. ALSA is alreadying starting , can' start mixer ??? or something like that <--- the sound problem

After boot when I start xmms "first" with out starting and closing mplayer I will get message saying that I should check if any program is using the sound

Even though kernel 2.4 is working wonder at the moment but who woun't want to use anything that is uptodate =)

anyone know how to fix this ?? greatly appreciated