Re: alsa: no device

[Thaden <thaden@freenet.de>]

Am Fre, 2002-11-08 um 17.43 schrieb Jack O'Quin:

> 
> > > What does /etc/modutils/alsa contain?
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> That looks OK as far as I can see.  One thing to watch our for: the
> module option names were recently changed in ALSA 0.9rc5.  The "snd_"

mine is alsa 0.9rc1
 
> You said earlier that you are running 2.4.18-k7 kernel with
> precompiled alsa-modules (0.9).  Does that mean you installed
> alsa-modules-2.4.18-k7 from unstable?  That version is based on ALSA
> 0.9rc1, so your option names (like snd_major) are currently correct.
> You may need to watch out for this change in the future, though.

well, actually it's testing, but i think that's the same version.
> 
> > snd-cmipci.o is in the appropiate /lib/modules directory
> That would be /lib/modules/2.4.18-k7/alsa, right?

right.
> 
> > > Does "lsmod" show that any snd* drivers are loaded?
> > "lsmod | grep snd" shows the following:
> > snd-seq-midi            3232   0 (unused)
> > snd-rawmidi            12864   0 [snd-seq-midi]
> > snd-seq-midi-event      3096   0 [snd-seq-midi]
> > snd-seq                37484   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
> > snd-timer              10432   0 [snd-seq]
> > snd-seq-device          3904   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi snd-seq]
> > snd                    25704   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-rawmidi
> > snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device]
> > soundcore               3684   2 [cmpci snd]
> 
> That looks OK as far as it goes, but your snd-cmipci driver is not
> getting loaded, for some reason.  I believe that causes the error
> you're seeing.
> 
> What happens if you run (as root) "modprobe snd-cmipci"?

aha! there seems to be some relevant information here, although i don't
know what to do with it:

"modprobe snd-cmipci" answers "/lib/modules/2.4.18-k7/alsa/snd-cmipci.o:
init_module: No such device"

dmesg has as last lines "ALSA ../alsa-kernel/pci/cmipci.c:2527: unable
to grab ports 0xd800-0xd8ff
C-Media PCI soundcard not found or device busy"

it seems that on boottime a module "cmpci" is loaded -- could this be
the reason why the alsa module can't be loaded?? unfortunately, i have
no idea how to unload that module, on "rmmod cmpci" it claims that the
device is busy, even if i killed esd.
so question really might be: how do i get rid of the other sound module?

thanks for any hints,

thaden.