Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > Takashi Iwai wrote: >>> snd_card_new gives me the error. >>> (I put some printk's at the right spots.) >>> >>> So what's the next step? >> Check that function. Did you build with the debug option? > > Yes. > For hda-intel it gives some extra messages but none for ice1712: > > ALSA sound/core/init.c:183: cannot find the slot for index 1 (range > 0-7), error: -16 > NULLcardinit............ (my own debugging) > ICE1712: probe of 0000:01:09.0 failed with error -12 > ALSA sound/core/init.c:183: cannot find the slot for index 1 (range > 0-7), error: -16 > NULLcardinit............ (my own debugging) > ICE1712: probe of 0000:01:09.0 failed with error -12 > It appears that in init.c, in snd_card_new this part of code is causing the error: else if (idx < snd_ecards_limit) { if (snd_cards_lock & (1 << idx)) err = -EBUSY; /* invalid */ printk(KERN_WARNING "busy............\n"); /*my debug */ } So it is my card? Repeatedly rmmodding and modprobing snd_ice1712 now only gives me -12 Please advise. Udo cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! busy............ ALSA sound/core/init.c:193: cannot find the slot for index 1 (range 0-7), error: -16 NULLcardinit............ ICE1712: probe of 0000:01:09.0 failed with error -12 busy............ ALSA sound/core/init.c:193: cannot find the slot for index 1 (range 0-7), error: -16 NULLcardinit............ ICE1712: probe of 0000:01:09.0 failed with error -12 busy............ ALSA sound/core/init.c:193: cannot find the slot for index 1 (range 0-7), error: -16 NULLcardinit............ ICE1712: probe of 0000:01:09.0 failed with error -12 busy............ ALSA sound/core/init.c:193: cannot find the slot for index 1 (range 0-7), error: -16 NULLcardinit............ ICE1712: probe of 0000:01:09.0 failed with error -12 busy............ ALSA sound/core/init.c:193: cannot find the slot for index 1 (range 0-7), error: -16 NULLcardinit............ ICE1712: probe of 0000:01:09.0 failed with error -12 busy............ ALSA sound/core/init.c:193: cannot find the slot for index 1 (range 0-7), error: -16 NULLcardinit............ ICE1712: probe of 0000:01:09.0 failed with error -12 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel