Re: ALSA not working in 2.6.5 Kernel (PB G4 1G)

[Hong Jiang <addrhub-mldqj@yahoo.com>]

On Wednesday 21 April 2004 01:19 am, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 03:41, Hong Jiang wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > I upgraded the kernel from 2.4.25 to 2.6.5 today, by "apt-get install
> > kernel-source-2.6.5" and building it afterward. After reboot Arts said
> >
> > Sound server informational message:
> > Error while initializing the sound driver:
> > SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT failed - Invalid argument
> > The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
>
> Well it is no wonder. You still have the dmasound* oss stuff loaded and
> thus the device is busy and alsa cannot take over.
>
> Simply disable dmasound in the kernel config or rmmod all the dmasound*
> i2c_keywest modules before trying to load the alsa ones.

Thanks! Yes this is the problem. I just disabled dmasound in the kernel config 
and rebuilt it. Everything works now.

>
> > i2c_keywest            12164  0
> > dmasound_pmac          95972  0
> > dmasound_core          23408  1 dmasound_pmac
> > i2c_core               28036  2 i2c_keywest,dmasound_pmac
>
> ^^^ follow the silent cry rmmod me
>
> Soeren

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