Sound works perfectly on my laptop (IBM 600E) when I install SuSE 7.2 and uncomment the appropriate lines in modules.conf. When I install SuSE 7.3, however, I get an error telling me that the sound module can not be found. I look for the ALSA sound module it complains about and am unable to find in the usual /lib/modules/.... path. Is there something obvious missing from a default install or am I just confused? OK, I'm usually confused about something but this was a no brainer setup in SuSE 7.2 so I'm just a little surprised. I checked to see if there was a alsa-driver package that didn't get installed but I don't find such a package on the CDs so I assume the main alsa package contains all the required modules. This is my last major stumbling block before converting to SuSE 7.3 so any help would be appreciated. And though I don't mind compiling code I would prefer to fix this problem with a SuSE supported solution since I am using this setup to convince others of the power AND EASE of current Linux solutions. wk "If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done." -- Scott Adams ***************************************************************************************************** (o)_ Wes Kinard kinard@us.ibm.com / /\ IBM Advanced Technical Support 817.962.5444 V_/_ pSeries / AIX / Linux T/L 522.5444
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:28:41PM -0600, Wes Kinard wrote:
Sound works perfectly on my laptop (IBM 600E) when I install SuSE 7.2 and uncomment the appropriate lines in modules.conf. When I install SuSE 7.3, however, I get an error telling me that the sound module can not be found. I look for the ALSA sound module it complains about and am unable to find in the usual /lib/modules/.... path. Is there something obvious missing from a default install or am I just confused? OK, I'm usually confused about something but this was a no brainer setup in SuSE 7.2 so I'm just a little surprised. I checked to see if there was a alsa-driver package that didn't get installed but I don't find such a package on the CDs so I assume the main alsa package contains all the required modules.
It would be easier to answer your question if you told the kernel version you are using. ALSA worked for me on T21 under SuSE 7.1 kernel 2.4.2. I then upgraded system to SuSE 7.3 and installed Mantel's kernel 2.4.14. No sound. Updated kernel to Mantel's 2.4.15 and got sound. Actually, it was a bug in ALSA 0.5.12 drivers. Just updated to Mantel's 2.4.16 (2.4.15 has a severe bug screwing up ext2 filesystems on umount), sound works. -Kastus
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Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka
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Wes Kinard