* Adam J. Henry (ahenry@cusa.dyndns.org) [20000116 10:01]:

cusa:~ > insmod snd-card-sb16

For a complex system of modules such as ALSA, using insmod is plain wrong. Use modprobe, as it's designed to load/unload a whole stack of modules. Would have spared you those error messages :)

I also have seen reference to a "soundcore" module in the various README, HOWTO, and FAQ documents associated with AlSA, but cannot find that module on my computer. How important is it?

This is part of the kernel and is needed for proper operation. You *have* to compile sound support as module. Nothing else of the kernel sound drivers is needed.

I compiled in PNP support into the AlSA drivers, so I should not need to fiddle with the PNP system utility?

No need for that. Either you have a fairly recent PnP BIOS that does the configuration or you reserve system resources via parameters to the ALSA modules (look into /usr/doc/packages/alsa).

### alias char-major-14 soundcore alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sb16 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 options soundcore io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 ###

I don't know what it should look like on a 6.2 system, but on 6.3 it looks like this: alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371 alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm1-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm1-oss options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=17 snd_device_uid=0 options snd-card-ens1371 snd_index=1 snd_id=CARD_1 snd_dac1_frame_size=128 snd_dac2_frame_size=128 snd_adc_frame_size=128 Do use alsaconfig, as it will create most if not all entries. When in doubt, read the documentation that rather clearly states what's needed/possible for a given card. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeker Str.10, D-90443 Nuremberg Life is an ocean and love is a boat, in troubled waters, it keeps us afloat Christy Moore -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

Hello, Guys! I know, I am late enough, but still, I hope I will help. The problem of unresolved symbols - is a bug in Linux Kernel Includes, when used with ALSA. When kernel is compiled with version, all system routines are redefined as #define routine routine_xxxxxx where xxxxxx is a weird sequence of characters, and represents the version. Edit the necessary headers manually, to comment those defines (or uncomment), then recompile ALSA. How to find the necessary file? Just go to MC, cd /usr/include, press ESC-?, then search for headers with contents of e.g. register\_sound\_dsp do not forget to put backslash before underline symbol. Thanks, Egor. -----Original Message----- From: Adam J. Henry [mailto:ahenry@cusa.dyndns.org] Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 9:20 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com; egm@csie.nsys.by Subject: Re: [SLE] alsa unresolved symbol -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Philipp Thomas wrote:

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I also have seen reference to a "soundcore" module in the various README, HOWTO, and FAQ documents associated with AlSA, but cannot find that module on my computer. How important is it?

This is part of the kernel and is needed for proper operation. You *have* to compile sound support as module. Nothing else of the kernel sound drivers is needed.

Alright. I compiled this as a module instead of directly into the kernel.

Do use alsaconfig, as it will create most if not all entries. When in doubt, read the documentation that rather clearly states what's needed/possible for a given card.

I uninstalled everything I manually installed from AlSA's home page, and used the SuSE packages. There are a couple more symbol errors after doing this, however: ### Loading driver: Starting sound driver: snd-card-sbawe /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_dsp /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_dsp /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_special /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_special /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd.o: insmod snd-card-sbawe failed alsactl: The soundcard 'CARD_1' was not found... alsactl: The soundcard 'CARD_1' was not found... Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50% The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably not detected correctly. ### Would this suggest that the PNP is not working correctly? Thanks, hank - -- [-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- adam j henry =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=] | [http: www.heidelberg.edu/~ahenry] [pgp: 0x92B1EDF5] | | [mailto: ahenry@heidelberg.edu] [icq: 5794025] | [-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBOIIZxKknFKpzlXZZEQITwACg+FcI7l9cS+/Wru3T0jZSdgtJdB4AoKm8 kQCWi4XjzKsZCFF/Uym1vOk+ =EjLW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/