I don't know whether the SuSE 10.0 Eval 64-bit ship with or without sound support, but I run SuSE 10 (not the Eval-version) on a 64-bit system (AMD 3500+, ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe) with an intergrated soundchip (NVidia CK804 Duplex Realtek ALC850-something) and it works fine for me. I also have a SB Audigy 2 Value, or Audigy 4, but it's disabled since I'm not sure it's fully recognised and/or supported. I had some trouble with the sound modules not loading properly (I think it was) after the first install, when I had both soundcards configured (intergrated as no. 0, SB as no. 1), but at the last install I disabled the SB card already during installation process, and no problems so far. /Lars Ricardo Cruz wrote:

Hey there,

I've recently bought a 64-bit AMD computer and have inserted my PCI Ensoniq 1370 sound card. I've tried it and it works just fine on the 32-bit SuSE 10.0 Eval edition. But I can't say the same for the 64-bit edition that I've installed from scratch.

It looks like sound support wasn't added to the kernel. Firstly, the errors I was getting from the command "modprobe snd-ens1370" were: «FATAL: Module snd-ens1370 not found.»

Then, I've installed Alsa-drivers, utils and libs from source, even though the software manager says the RPMs are already installed. Now, the error I'm getting is as follows: «linux:~ # modprobe snd-ens1370 WARNING: Error inserting snd (/lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/kernel/sound/acore/snd.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting snd_ak4531_codec (/lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/ snd-ak4531-codec.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting snd_timer (/lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/kernel/sound/acore/snd-timer. ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting snd_pcm (/lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/kernel/sound/acore/snd-pcm.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting snd_seq_device (/lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/kernel/sound/acore/seq/s nd-seq-device.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting snd_rawmidi (/lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/kernel/sound/acore/snd-rawm idi.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting snd_ens1370 (/lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/kernel/sound/pci/snd-ens1370. ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)»

dmesg outputs a lot of repetitions, so I'm just reporting the tail: «linux:~ # dmesg | tail snd_ens1370: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages snd_ens1370: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_ops snd_ens1370: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list snd_ens1370: Unknown symbol snd_device_new snd_ens1370: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_new snd_ens1370: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_set_ops snd_ens1370: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_free_for_all snd_ens1370: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_ratnums snd_ens1370: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed snd_ens1370: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_format_width»

Is this a problem of the kernel or Alsa? And is it true that SuSE 10.0 Eval 64-bit doesn't ship with sound support?

Cheers, Ricardo

* Ricardo Cruz (rpmcruz@clix.pt) [20060101 17:51]:

It looks like sound support wasn't added to the kernel. Firstly, the errors I was getting from the command "modprobe snd-ens1370" were: «FATAL: Module snd-ens1370 not found.»

*All* SUSE kernels have sound support enabled, it wouldn't make sense otherwise. I just looked and snd-es1370 *is* present.

(/lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/kernel/sound/acore/snd.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

Seems like you either built the drivers against the wrong kernel or against an unconfigured kernel.

And is it true that SuSE 10.0 Eval 64-bit doesn't ship with sound support?

No, that's wrong! Philipp -- Anything whose specification is too complicated to explain easily probably needs to be redesigned. David Abrahams on boost