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Beattie
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 Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 2:42 pm Post subject: Aureal sound module |
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I am having a problem with my sound. This used to work without any problems, so I dont know what's going on now. I need to use the sound modules from aureal.sourceforge.net. Anyway, I got them and ran the make and here is what I get...
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mv -f /etc/modules.conf /etc/modules.conf.old
gawk -f mod_conf /etc/modules.conf.old > /etc/modules.conf
echo "alias sound au8830" >> /etc/modules.conf
echo "alias midi au8830" >> /etc/modules.conf
mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/misc
cp -f au8830.o /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/misc
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/rmmod au8830
rmmod: module au8830 is not loaded
make: [install] Error 1 (ignored)
/sbin/modprobe au8830
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/misc/au8830.o: The module you are trying to load (/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/misc/au8830.o) is compiled with a gcc
version 2 compiler, while the kernel you are running is compiled with
a gcc version 3 compiler. This is known to not work.
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/misc/au8830.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/misc/au8830.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/misc/au8830.o: insmod au8830 failed
make: [install] Error 255 (ignored)
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The error modprobe gives is that it is a different version of GCC. How can this even be? I only have gcc 3 installed. |
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Beattie
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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I see.... there is part of it that's already binary...
Bah, why didnt they recompile it for gcc 3? |
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Wedge_
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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I get the same message. If you do it should force it to load anyway. Works for me 
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quakey
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Or you can change the gcc version number to 3 to fool insmod or modprobe.
There are a few .o files you need to modify. I dun exactly remember which files, but I think they are asp10.o, asp20.o and asp30.o. Open those files in vi or whatever editor you prefer, then locate the string "gcc" and change the number from 2 to 3.
Now the system will assume those modules were compiled with gcc version 3.  |
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KH
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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This error never stopped me from insmod'ing before. Just force it.
I used this as my /etc/init.d/aureal file
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#!/sbin/runscript
start() {
ebegin "Loading Aureal Vortex2 module"
setpci -d '12eb:*' 40.B=ff &> /dev/null
insmod -f au8830 &> /dev/null
eend $?
}
stop() {
rmmod au8830 &> /dev/null
}
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You need the line
setpci -d '12eb:*' 40.B=ff
somewhere in one of your init.d / rc scripts (like the one that loads your aureal modules / alsa) or else you will get anything from hard lockups to intermitant sound. (setpci is part of the pciutils package)
FYI, if you want to upgrade;
Kernels >= 2.5.x use the .ko module format instead of the .o so those drivers won't work without modification. Instead of hacking them, I picked up the ALSA ones from http://imptech.dhs.org/~imptech/ . They are a diff file you patch against the kernel source before you compile.
They were linked from http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=904048&forum_id=25250
but also check out http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=25250 for some others if those don't work. |
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Hairball
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 2:34 am Post subject: Check out Openvortex |
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I've got an Aureal 8830 chip on my soundcard. I did the force insmod for a while, but I just discovered the openvortex project. They've produced an ALSA driver that is working superbly on my system. I submitted some cvs ebuilds for the project to breakmygentoo.net http://bugs.breakmygentoo.net/show_bug.cgi?id=167 but you have to login to get them. They don't have a release yet, but cvs is apparently real stable (according to my experience and the developers' comments). I recommend checking it out. I won't go back.
A tip from my experience, reboot before using the openvortex alsa module. My card didn't like two drivers talking to it without a reboot in between (sound quality was bad). Now it's excellent.
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/openvortex/ |
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pjp
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Moved from Other Things Gentoo.
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Hairball
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Those ebuilds (for openvortex) are now posted at http://www.breakmygentoo.net if anyone's interested. You don't have to login anymore to buzilla. |
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