Re: Errors starting up alsa

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On 2004-01-31, Niels L. Ellegaard penned:
> Soumyadip Modak <soumyadip@softhome.net> writes:
>> to build alsa modules for my kernel 2.4.21-5-k7. I also edited the
>> config files as instructed. But when i /etc/init.d/alsa start the
>> following error message is shown: Storing ALSA mixer settings
>> ... failed Shutting down ALSA (version 0.9.6): done.  Starting ALSA
>> (version 0.9.6): intel8x0-failed failed
>
> I got a somewhat similar message a few days ago because i had
> forgotten to uninstall the ac97_codec module.  I solved my proplem by
> adding the following lines to /etc/discover-autoskip.conf
>
> skip i810_audio
> skip ac97_codec

Sorry for jumping into this thread late ... will the alsa intel8x0
module work for any card using the ac97_codec module?

> What do you get when you write lsmod?
>
> Do any of the files in /var/log directory mention the attempt to
> include ALSA. What do they tell you?
>
>                          Good luck
>
>                                 Niels
>
>


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monique