kldload: can't load snd_driver.ko: Exec format error

[Gert Cuykens]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:51:02 +0100, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
> KLD snd_driver.ko: depends on snd_ad1816 - not available
> kldload: Unsupported file type
> 7rxI#
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:53:02 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:46:27AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> >
> >
> > > hi i am using a sk8n motherboard everything works fine except de NIC
> > > and the sound card. They said on the question mailinglist i had to ask
> > > the amd64 mailinglist how to make my soundchip alc650 work. I tried
> > > this but on the question mailing list they said i have to do something
> > > els also. i am using freebsd 5.3b7
> > >
> > > #cd /usr/src/sys/modules/sound/drivers/drivers/
> > > #make depend
> > > #make
> > > #make install
> > > # kldload snd_driver.ko
> > > kldload: can't load snd_driver.ko: Exec format error
> > >
> > And the dmesg(8) output after you do this look like?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Ruslan Ermilov
> > ru at FreeBSD.org
> > FreeBSD committer
> >
> >
> >
> 

what does make depend do ? why do you only have to use make depend
when you install a driver and not when you install a port application
?

what happens if you skip the depend part ?