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I posted this message to the Hardware section of the Gentoo forums, and |
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it got 10 reads and 0 responses in about 15 hours. I thought the |
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message might be more appropriate for the gentoo-dev because of its |
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detailed content--hopefully detailed enough for one of you devs to help |
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me out. My apologies if I am mis-posting this. |
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Here goes... |
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My ISAPNP SB16 card is not working in Gentoo 2.4.19-gentoo in KDE3, with |
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newly emerged ALSA driver, utils, tools, you name it. I remembered to |
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'rc-update add alsa boot' (note: boot, not default, as per a recent post |
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here[on Gentoo forum-Hardware], although default does not work either |
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and gives the same errors). Also, I did depmod -a, which yields 5 |
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'unresolved symbols'errors in |
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/lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo/kernel/sound/pci/cs46xx/snd-cs46xx.o, |
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~/sound/pci/snd-cs4281.o |
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~snd-es1938.o, |
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~snd-sonicvibes.o |
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~/pci/trident/snd-trident-o. |
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The card is recognized at boot, the alsa module (snd-sb16) and oss |
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modules (snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss) load, but the ALSA module then |
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generates errors complaining of 'hooks failed' and such. Below is the |
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text, hand-typed into this message because cut-and-paste does not work |
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across these apps:[sorry, relative newbie here, I'm sure there's a way |
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to pipe the output into a text editor] |
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ALSA lib conf.c:1520:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:6:8:Unexpected char |
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ALSA lib conf.c:2616:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/asound.conf may be old |
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or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it |
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ALSA lib conf.c:2463:(snd_config_hooks_call) function |
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snd_config_hook_load returned error: Unknown error |
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ALSA lib conf.c:2859:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing |
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configuration |
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This same error is generated if I type 'amixer' at the CLI. So I renamed |
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/etc/asound.conf and sure enough, the error message went away, and all I |
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got was an 'asound.conf missing' error. |
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Oddly, after I unmuted amixer (only possible with /etc/asound.conf |
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renamed, i.e., absent) I was able to play the pop.wav sound from the |
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CLI. No other sound works, though: nothing in KDE Control Center, and |
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nothing from xmms. KDE is set to use the ALSA sound system in Control |
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Center, although it does not work if I select OSS either. |
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I did a google search for unresolved symbol errors in sound, and got |
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nothing useful. |
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Was the ALSA system in Gentoo just updated so that my asound.conf is now |
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broken? How can I fix it? This sound card used to work perfectly in Gentoo! |
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Sorry this is so verbose, but I hope the detail helps. |
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TIA, |
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Rob W |
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