module/ configuration problems w/ RH 6.1

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

        after installing RH6.1 on my system at home; I found that sound
wasn't working. after poking at sndconfig for a while, I eventually realized
that the reason it wasn't working was because the kernel modules weren't
loading. 
        doing a depmod -a gives some sort of configuration error; something
like:
conf: 1         error

(tho that's not exactly right; but there was definitely a 'conf: 1' in it).
the modules.dep file is not generated.
gives this same error at boot time, when it does a depmod -a.

anyone know what's going on?

in other probelms: (probably unrelated?)
        running wish in 'make xconfig' craps out with something about
$DISPLAY being undefined. I've never seen this problem b4... what happened here?

I'll see if I can go get the precise error messages tonight.

Carl Soderstrom
System Administrator	307 Brighton Ave. 
Minnesota DHIA		Buffalo, MN	
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