ALSA with vi82xx loading and static problems

[Johnny Huynh <huynh@cs.ualberta.ca>]

Hi,

A while back, I had sound working with kernel 2.6.8. But I had to switch
to a 2.4 kernel for a while and sound broke. It continues to be broken 
after switching back to 2.6.x. (I never deleted any of the kernels, just
booting different images through LILO). I specifically want to use
2.6.6 now...

First, dmesg shows a LOT of lines looking like:
snd_{pcm|seq_device|rawmidi|via82xx|...}: Unknown symbol snd_*

(i.e. lots of modules, with lots of unknown symbols)

After booting up, I tried manually running "modprobe snd", but I'd get

$ modprobe snd 
FATAL: Error inserting snd (/lib/modules/2.6.6/kernel/sound/core/snd.ko): 
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

But if I goto the modules dir, and manually run "insmod snd.ko", the 
modules load... So why doesnt it load normally on startup or the first 
time I run modprobe?

After loading, I can run alsaconf/alsactl without errors. KDE/arts also 
stops reporting errors. But the only thing coming out of the speakers 
is static.

Here is my lsmod and lspci output if it helps:

$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_via82xx            22144  0 
snd_pcm                84360  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec         61444  1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart         6144  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            20128  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq                49104  0 
snd_timer              20996  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          6536  2 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    44836  8 
snd_via82xx,snd_pcm,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               7392  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          8964  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm

$ lspci -v
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
        Subsystem: TWINHEAD INTERNATIONAL Corp: Unknown device 0408
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2


Any help with either/both problems is appreciated. Also, only the second 
problem (static) shows up when using the kernel 2.6.8, but I still need to
figure out the module loading problem in 2.6.6.

Thanks,

-- 
-- Johnny