Yesterday I updated the slackware kernel to 2.6.16.22. I picked up this version from the testing directory on the slackware’s ftp site.

The packages I needed were:

kernel-generic-2.6.16.22-i486-1.tgz
kernel-modules-2.6.16.22-i486-1.tgz
alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.6.16.22-i486-1

Apart from these I installed the source package also

kernel-source-2.6.16.22-i486-1.tgz

After installing these packages using

installpkg

I created the initrd image for the kernel.

mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.16.22 -m reiserfs

Change LILO
I added following lines in my lilo.conf

# vi /etc/lilo.conf
image = /boot/vmlinuz
initrd=/boot/initrd.gz
root = /dev/hda2
label = Linux-2.6.16
read-only

and then

# lilo -v
# reboot

ALSA Driver
There is a seperate ALSA driver package for every slackware kernel and since I had already installed the required driver for the new kernel. I needed to run the

alsaconf

and any mixer program of choice like

alsamixer

or

aumix