Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa not installing

[Garvin H. <ha...@cl...>]

El tío Anacondo wrote:

>>Found the kernel after and got the driver compiled.  There is still no
>>sound when I reboot with the alsa driver selected though.  I've tried
>>working my way through the syslog and I notice the following lines:
>>
>>Jun 19 22:18:51 localhost modprobe:
>>/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o:
>>Jun 19 22:18:51 localhost modprobe: unresolved symbol snd_verbose_printk
>>Jun 19 22:18:51 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod
>>/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed
>>Jun 19 22:18:51 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod snd-cs46xx failed
>>
>>I also tried KMix to increase the volumes but it just appears with a
>>grey window.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Garvin.
>>    
>>
>
>I'm no expert, so maybe I'm wrong here. The command "modinfo snd" showed this 
>result on my system:
>
>filename:    /lib/modules/2.4.21-ck1/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o
>description: "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards."
>author:      "Jaroslav Kysela <pe...@su...>"
>license:     "GPL"
>parm:        major int, description "Major # for sound driver."
>parm:        cards_limit int, description "Count of soundcards installed in 
>the system."
>
I get something similar, except with the mandrake uname -r

>have a module called "soundcore" with 'lsmod'. If there is not, *maybe* 
>
lsmod | grep soundcore
returns nothing.

>you'll have to compile the kernel (ask for a second opinion on this, I'm not 
>sure) to enable it. If there is, maybe you should search for 
>incompatibilities elsewhere: gcc version, modutils version, kernel headers 
>
uname -r
2.4.19-16mdk

gcc -v:
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib 
--with-slibdir=/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info 
--enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking 
--enable-long-long --enable-__cxa_atexit 
--enable-languages=c,c++,ada,f77,objc,java 
--host=i586-mandrake-linux-gnu --with-system-zlib
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)

How do I check the modutils version?

Having said that I haven't touched anything like this since I installed 
Mandrake 9.0.

Garvin.