Oliver Lupton wrote: > Trevor Bradley wrote: >> As posted to linuxquestions.org. They redirected me here... >> >> --- >> >> Please, for the sweet love of Zombie Jeebus, help me. >> >> I have two machines using an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, both running >> Slackware Linux 11.0. One machine is my home file+web server and >> MythTV backend (with 2.0 speakers). The other machine is my HTPC >> frontend and dual-boots to XP and Linux. That machine now has 5.1 >> speakers that work great in >> >> It's a great motherboard and Linux works well on both, except for the >> sound. I can compile snd_hda_intel and it *kind of* works. If you >> touch the alsamixer volume, occasionally the sound dies. Or sometimes >> the sound doesn't come up at boot. Or, sometimes, if you mute and >> unmute the sound in alsamixer on the 5.1 speakers, 5 of the 6 >> speakers start working. Or sometimes if you rerun alsaconf and >> alsamixer it starts working again, but often it doesn't. Mostly, >> sound doesn't work and it's frustrating. >> >> I've read around for various solutions, and decided to attempt to >> upgrade my alsa-driver to 1.0.13. However when I attempt to modprobe >> snd_hda_intel, I get the following error: >> >> FATAL: Error inserting snd_hda_intel >> (/lib/modules/2.6.18.2/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko): >> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) >> >> If I run dmesg, I get get errors of the type: >> >> snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk >> snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printd >> snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_hidden_kzalloc >> snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_hidden_kcalloc >> snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_hidden_kfree >> >> using depmod on snd_hda_intel actually appears to delete the >> snd_hda_intel drivers! >> >> I've seen other posts mention "Unknown symbol", only to have the >> original poster come back and say they've "fixed the problem" with no >> further data. I can get things somewhat back to normal by recompiling >> my kernel snd_hda_intel drivers using make modules_install from my >> kernel directory. >> >> This is driving me nuts. Getting sound working on my HTPC and >> MythBackend is the one thing holding me back from using my >> mythfrontend properly. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions, or links to threads with concrete >> solutions? I appreciate the help. >> >> Trevor Bradley >> Surrey, B.C., Canada > > I use Gentoo rather than Slackware, so that's where my experience > lies. But whenever I've seen the endless undefined symbol errors it's > been when working with both externally compiled alsa-driver modules > and those distributed with the kernel. On Gentoo then the alsa-driver > ones get installed to a different path in /lib/modules/, maybe search > there and check you don't have two instances of the same modules? > That's just what the issue has been whenever I've seen or heard about > it, it could be something different. > > Out of interest, what chipset does your card have? I've been having > endless problems trying to get 5.1 to work at all on my Asus (A8N-VM > CSM, AD1986A chipset) using the hda-intel driver. > > Cheers, > -ol Yep, it appears this motherboard also as an AD1986A chipset. It'll be the starting point for my next search. I can't check too well on this remotely unfortunately. I'll have to try when I get home. I don't see any duplicate drivers though. Trevor Bradley Surrey, B.C., Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
