Re: [Alsa-user] Problem installing ALSA 1.0 on Dell PC, RHEL 4.4, RedHat 2.6.9-42

[Bill U. <un...@ph...>]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Andrew Daviel wrote:

>
> I ame having trouble trying to install the latest ALSA on a Dell PC under
> RHEL4.4. It seems likely I'm doing something stupd but I can't figure out
> what.
>
> The motherboard has an Intel sound chip which works under the Dell
> diagnostics (and probably Windows but I haven't tried):
>   Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
>     Audio Controller (rev 01)
>   Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01de
> It has, I think, line in and speaker out on the back and microphone in
> and headphone out on the front, also an internal speaker which the
> diagnostics are able to use.
>
> The RHEL install procedure detects this and configures the "azx" driver.
> The module installs and the mixer control runs but I don't hear any sound
> from either front or back sockets, with the output level un-muted and
> maximized.
>
> So I thought I would try to install the latest ALSA driver, which seems
> to be "hda_intel" for this chipset.
>
> The system has kernel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL.i686 and
> kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL.i686 RPMs installed. ALSA built
> OK with "./configure --with-cards=hda-intel" after commenting out
> "typedef unsigned __nocast gfp_t" from include/adriver.h - probably a
> RedHat patch that's in the stock 2.6.14. But when I try to install the
> modules I get unknown symbols, e.g.
> # insmod alsa-driver-1.0.14rc2/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
>   insmod: error inserting 'alsa-driver-1.0.14rc2/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko':
>   -1 Unknown symbol in module

I think you also want to compile alsalib.

>
>   kernel: snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_free_irq
> (after doing "make", "make install" which includes depmod)
>
> I then tried getting the entire RedHat source RPM and building and
> installing it, so I have a kernel 2.6.9-prep
>
> I tried rebuilding ALSA with
> # ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel --with-redhat=yes
>   --with-kernel=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9
>   --with-build=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9
> # make
> # make install
> # depmod -a
> # modprobe snd-hda-intel
>
> but still get unknown symbols.
> I tried building alsa-driver-1.0.10 and alsa-driver-1.0.12 as well as
> alsa-driver-1.0.14rc2 with the same results.
>
> I have built ALSA previously on other machines (a while ago) and not had
> any problem.
> I have got sound running with an old Soundlbaster Live card, but I don't
> really want to give up a PCI slot as I have other cards I want to
> install. I would also rather keep a RedHat RPM kernel as it simplifies
> administration (as opposed to building the latest kernel.org offering).

The intel hda is not a particularly good soundcard but maybe you do not
care.

>
> Any ideas ?
>
> (Getting sound out of the azx driver might be an alternative; I get
> "format non available" from aplay trying to play a WAV file (in the
> default format, or indeed any listed format )
>
>

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