Re: ALSA sound modules not loading

[flonesaw@longship.net]

Marshal,

There is a Seg fault problem with the ALSA drivers.

I have a Creative Ensoniq PCI64 (ens1371) soundcard and the ALSA
drivers do the same thing to me.  This is on a S.u.S.E. system with
kernel 2.2.5.

What I do is to put the modprobe command in a script in my /root/bin
directory and run it manually until the driver "catches" and doesn't
segfault.  Then, everything works fine.

Since I almost never reboot my machine, this works well for me.

I have reported this to the ALSA people.  They responded that it was a
S.u.S.E. problem.  Apparently it isn't.  I would recommend you go to
the ALSA site and report it yourself.

Regards,

Arne

> I'm using the latest potato right now.  The ALSA source compiled fine.
> I used make-kpkg to install the modules.  But for some reason the
> module won't start.  Every time I run /etc/init.d/alsa start, I get
> the following.
> 
> Starting sound driver: snd-card-interwave /etc/init.d/alsa: line 10:  7070 Segmentation fault      /sbin/modprobe $line >/dev/nul
l 2>&1
> failed.
> 
> To get this, I had to edit the file /etc/init.d/alsa to awk
> /etc/modules.conf as opposed to conf.modules, since the new potato has
> finally removed the old style conf.modules.  
> 
> a lsmod right after gives:
> Module                  Size  Used by
> snd-cs4231             16876   0  (unused)
> snd-mixer              24768   0  [snd-cs4231]
> snd-pcm1               16604   0  [snd-cs4231]
> snd-timer               7772   0  [snd-cs4231 snd-pcm1]
> snd-midi               12524   0  (unused)
> snd-pcm                 8844   0  [snd-cs4231 snd-pcm1]
> snd                    33612   0  [snd-cs4231 snd-mixer snd-pcm1 snd-timer snd-midi snd-pcm]
> soundcore               2340   0  [snd]
> ppp                    20012   0  (unused)
> slhc                    4280   0  [ppp]
> ne2k-pci                4040   1 
> 8390                    6068   0  [ne2k-pci]
> parport_pc              5700   1  (autoclean)
> lp                      5092   0 
> parport                 7048   1  [parport_pc lp]
> vfat                    8956   0  (unused)
> fat                    28768   0  [vfat]
> 
> I can manually "modprobe snd-card-interwave" and it gives me no error,
> so I have no idea what's going on.  
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> Marshal
> 
> 
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