Can't get sound to work

[rvickers]

I followed the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide and used the kernel config'd ALSA.

tux ~ # lspci -v |grep -i audio
00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

# genkernel --menuconfig all

Kernel Options:
<M> Sound Card Support
<M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
<M> Sequencer support
<M> OSS Mixer API
<M> OSS PCM (digital audio) API
PCI Devices
<M> VIA 82C686A/B, 8233/8235 AC97 Controller

# alsaconf

unning modules-update...
Loading driver...
/etc/rc.conf: line 41: kde-3.5.4: command not found
* Loading ALSA modules ...
* Loading: snd-card-0 ...
WARNING: Error inserting snd_ac97_codec (/lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r8/alsa-driver/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
FATAL: Error inserting snd_via82xx (/lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r8/alsa-driver/pci/snd-via82xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see d [ !! ]
* Loading: snd-seq-oss ...
FATAL: Error inserting snd_seq_oss (/lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r8/alsa-driver/acore/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) [ !! ]
* Loading: snd-pcm-oss ...
FATAL: Error inserting snd_pcm_oss (/lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r8/alsa-driver/acore/oss/snd-pcm-oss.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) [ !! ]
* Loading: snd-pcm-oss ...
FATAL: Error inserting snd_pcm_oss (/lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r8/alsa-driver/acore/oss/snd-pcm-oss.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) [ !! ]
* ERROR: Failed to load necessary drivers [ ok ]
* Restoring Mixer Levels ...
* No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card! [ ok ]
Setting default volumes...
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
Saving the mixer setup used for this in /etc/asound.state.
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1163: No soundcards found...
===============================================================================
Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.
Have a lot of fun!

tux ~ # dmesg
Linux version 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 (root@tux) (gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)) #1 SMP Sun Nov 5 21:18:07 CST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f5340
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 KM400A ) @ 0x000f6d00
ACPI: RSDT (v001 KM400A AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 KM400A AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff3040
ACPI: MADT (v001 KM400A AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff7a40
ACPI: DSDT (v001 KM400A AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:10 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 3, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 dfl dfl)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Detected 2075.071 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Speakup v-2.00 CVS: Mon May 1 09:46:33 EDT 2006 : initialized
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 513456k/524224k available (2308k kernel code, 10140k reserved, 578k data, 224k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4157.58 BogoMIPS (lpj=20787910)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000420 00000000 00000000 00000000
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed
CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ stepping 00
Total of 1 processors activated (4157.58 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
Brought up 1 CPUs
migration_cost=0
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 2193k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbac0, last bus=1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI: Quirk-MSI-K8T Soundcard On
PCI: Unexpected Value in PCI-Register: no Change!
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 *10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 20) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs 21) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs 23) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x4000-0x407f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x5000-0x500f has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: e0000000-e1ffffff
PREFETCH window: d8000000-dfffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
PCI: Bypassing VIA 8237 APIC De-Assert Message
initialized device: /dev/synth, node ( MAJOR 10, MINOR 25 )
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:0a: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.1[A] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.1, from 255 to 0
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD400BB-22JHC0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD1200BB-00DAA3, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: LITE-ON DVD SOHD-167T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: max request size: 512KiB
hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes supported
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 >
hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] enabled at IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.4[C] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.4, from 5 to 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 17, io mem 0xe4011000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.0, from 10 to 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 17, io base 0x0000b400
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1[A] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.1, from 10 to 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 17, io base 0x0000b800
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.2[B] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.2, from 11 to 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 17, io base 0x0000bc00
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.3[B] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.3, from 11 to 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 17, io base 0x0000c000
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
sl811: driver sl811-hcd, 19 May 2005
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
libata version 1.20 loaded.
usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input0
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:10.0-2
sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 1.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.0, from 11 to 0
sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 0
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9800 ctl 0x9C02 bmdma 0xA800 irq 16
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xA000 ctl 0xA402 bmdma 0xA808 irq 16
input: Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input1
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:10.0-2
ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
scsi0 : sata_via
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
scsi1 : sata_via
device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
JFS: nTxBlock = 4032, nTxLock = 32258
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8774 Tue Aug 1 20:54:08 PDT 2006
Adding 500464k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:500464k
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13-NAPI (May 11, 2002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7869 advertising 05e1.
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at e08d6000, 00:12:17:58:EC:16, IRQ 19.
snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_update_power
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] enabled at IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [ALKD] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:12.0, from 10 to 4
eth1: VIA Rhine II at 0xe4012000, 00:50:8d:30:1f:26, IRQ 20.
eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 05e1 Link 0000.
eth1: link down
0000:00:09.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 41e1.
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_update_power
snd_seq_oss: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_param_value
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_param_value
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_update_power
snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_update_power
snd_seq_oss: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_param_value
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_param_value
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_update_power
snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_via82xx: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_update_power
snd_seq_oss: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_param_value
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_pcm_oss: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_param_value


..................... Any ideas what happened ??? .............................

[rizzurant]

if you know exactly your hardware try to set the driver to built-in as kernel
and enable hotplug & coldplug, restart your box

this solved my problem

[TemplarKnight]

I don't believe that this problem has anything to do with Desktop Environments whatsoever. Maybe a mod can move it to kernel & hardware so that u get some answers there...

From the errors u posted just a shot in the dark:

Did u run the command:

[stahlsau]

i got that unknown symbols too, with the same audio (ac97, my mobos onboard sound - but the pci-card doesn't work too). No solution so far, at least no other than using oss from opensound.com, which runs flawlessly and is installed really fast and painless. Anyway, it bugs me that the stupid alsa doesn't work