I have a very easy (maybe a newbie) question to add on to this one. After installing the latest (1.0.21) ALSA, should i uninstall the older version in synaptic? At this point i have both installed and i'm wondering if that might be causing problems for me. Thanks. Crystal wrote: >> Robert Persson wrote: >> >>> I have been trying to compile and load the latest (1.0.21) ALSA, but I >>> keep >>> getting unknown symbol errors. >>> ...... >>> [ 1262.146892] snd: Unknown symbol unregister_sound_special >>> [ 1262.147840] snd: Unknown symbol register_sound_special_device >>> >> These symbols must be provided by the kernel. Make sure to enable >> CONFIG_SOUND and CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME. >> >> >> HTH >> Clemens >> > I bumped into the same thing, Robert, you know; but finally found the > solution : > http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/04/29/sog-1-busted-sound-0-getting-audio-working-on-the-x300-under-ubuntu/ > Briefly, despite the sound support in kernel was turned on, soundcore.ko > which contains these > unregister_sound_special and so on was missing in > /lib/modules/../kernel/sound dunno why > You should recompile sound support manually and insert soundcore.ko in > this dir , then run depmode -a > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user