Re: ALSA (and kernel?) problem

[George Georgalis <george@galis.org>]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:11:44AM +0100, Alex wrote:
>I'm running kernel 2.4.20 and have recently got a abit kd7 with
>an onboard audio chipset.
>
>The chipset on the motherboard is via vt8235.
>
>I just downloaded the latest alsa ( 0.9.0rc6 developer) version of alsa as i 
>couldn't see the kernel supporting this chipset.
>
>did everything according to:
>http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=VIA&card=&chip=via8235&module=via82xx
>
>i'm a debian user, when coming to modprobing:
>tudor:/etc# modprobe snd-via82xx
>/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol _mmx_memcpy
>/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: insmod 
>/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed
>/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: insmod snd-via82xx failed
>
>CONFIG_SOUND was compiled into the kernel.
>
>searched some on google but found no useful information,
>i'm thankful for all help.
>

It looks as if you don't have all the modules installed properly and/or
alsa is expecting a different kernel or kernel options.

I haven't used alsa in a while but when I did, I used these scripts (RedHat)
to compile/install.

http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-INSTALL.sh
http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-driver-0.5.11.sh
http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-lib-0.5.10b.sh
http://galis.org/scripts/alsa-utils-0.5.10.sh

notice especially what's happening at the end of alsa-driver-0.5.11.sh
do you know how to apply module aliases you put in /etc/modutils/arch/i386?
btw update-rc.d on Debian is similar to the RH chkconfig command.

// George


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