ALSA installation problem

[dinuroman]

i am following the alsa guide doc, compiled sound card support as a module in the kernel (xfs-sources), emerged alsa-driver (i have a via 82xx card), modified the /etc/modules.d/alsa according to the doc, when i run modules-update i get:

bash-2.05b# modules-update
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs-r3/kernel/drivers/net/starfire.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs-r3/video/fglrx.o

any ideas appreciated.

thx

[Dracnor]

Make sure you have a symlink from /usr/src/linux to your version in /usr/src/...

Have you compiled and booted your new kernel? You can try recompiling with make clean and make mrproper before you make the kernel image. Make sure to re-emerge alsa after a kernel re-compile as well.

[sgaap]

But what is your problem? do your alsa modules load? that warning doesnt have anything to do with alsa..
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[dinuroman]

alsa doesn't work, amixer gives me an error, when i start kde i get a sound error message that i coud't find some /dev/... device and that the sound goes to /dev/null

basically i dont have sound, i followed the alsa tutorial and got stuck at the error i posted above.

about the kernel: i did genkernel --configure, and did some settings according to the tutorial (sound card support as a module).

[sgaap]

but the error above has nothing to do with alsa, it just says that some modules have problems, but nothing about alsa.

What error do you get when loading alsa and which modules are loaded
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[dinuroman]

here are the steps i did:

first of all, i went through all the tutorial steps once, and sound didn't work, so i started again the second time.

compiled sound card support into the kernel, and took out everything else under 'Sound", according to the alsa tutorial. then i rebooted into the new kernel.

emerged alsa-driver

emerged alsa-utils

modified /etc/modules.d/alsa according to the tutorial

when running modules-update, i get the error message i posted above.

ok, i understand, it has nothing to do with alsa, but running amixer gives the following error:

bash-2.05b$ amixer
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
bash-2.05b$

the tutorial tells me to manually modprobe snd-mixer-oss and snd-pc-oss. trouble is when i want to run modprobe, it says: modprobe: command not found. (the first time i installed, modprobe worked ok, but i still could not start amixer).

another thing: when i start kde, i get a message saying it cannot find /dev/dsp and that sound will be directed to /dev/null. maybe this is related to the amixer error message above (can't find the device).

if anybody can make heads or tails from the above, please post.

thanks

[sgaap]

you could try to enter "source /etc/profile" on your promt, if it worked before it probably works again after this

whats your "lsmod" output?
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[dinuroman]

lsmod output

bash-2.05b# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
floppy 47708 0 (autoclean)
hid 12648 0 (unused)
uhci 24560 0 (unused)
8139too 14376 1
mii 2080 0 [8139too]
serial 49060 0 (autoclean)
isa-pnp 27940 0 (autoclean) [serial]
parport_pc 24648 1 (autoclean)
lp 6464 0 (autoclean)
parport 22464 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
bash-2.05b#

i installed the latest alsa drivers from the alsa home page (1.0.something), still no sound, same message when i start kde, and can't run amixer.

[dinuroman]

source /etc/profile brings me the prompt i want, but if i close the xterm and open another, it is back to its old self.... i have to run source /etc/profile every time?

hope not.

thanks.

[G-Style]

Did you go into make menuconfig and load the sound card support as a module by pressing "M" I had the same problem because I didn't load the sound card support as a module.

[dinuroman]

sound card support is loaded as module into the kernel.

note:

under the same menu, i have via 82C686 (my card!) codecs, i took it out, per tutorial. before i had it enabled..... i don't know if it is of any consequence.

[Dracnor]

You can put source /etc/profile at the bottom of your ~/.bashrc in your home directory so that it reads it when you open a terminal.

[dinuroman]

re: bash prompt - did it, thank you, it works.....

if i get the alsa working now, i can listen to anthony robbins' mp3-s while compiling progs and srfing the net.....

(actually i think the guy is rather boring, but anyway.....)

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