Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:33:05 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:

> [ snip: You checked all the usual suspects already; I did not notice
>   anything that gave me a clue what is going on. ]

Thank you Florian for your reply.

>> But I can't go any further via googling. E.g., among many other
>> tryings, following Florian Kulzer's advice on merely unloading and
>> reloading the modules didn't work for me:
>> 
>>   % modprobe -r snd_via82xx snd_pcm snd_seq FATAL: Module snd_pcm is in
>>   use.
> 
> In that case you have to remove the module that uses snd_pcm (probably
> snd_pcm_oss) before you can remove snd_pcm.
> 
>>   % modprobe snd_via82xx
>>   % modprobe snd_seq
> 
> There is some problem with the driver, therefore it is important to have
> more details about what is going on when the modules are loaded. Try to
> unload all snd* modules so that "lsmod | grep snd" returns no output.
> (If this is not possible then you should find out which modules are the
> blockers to help isolate the problem.)
> 
> If you can unload all sound modules, run
> 
> modprobe -v snd_via82xx snd_pcm_oss snd_seq
> 
> as root and post the output here.

Done as you suggested. Here are the results:

  # modprobe -r snd_via82xx gameport snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device snd soundcore

  # lsmod | grep snd

  # modprobe -v snd_via82xx snd_pcm snd_seq
  FATAL: Error inserting snd_via82xx (/lib/modules/2.6.26-grml/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via82xx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

  # dmesg | tail -1
  [47924.339972] snd_via82xx: Unknown parameter `snd_pcm'

  # modprobe -v snd_via82xx
  install /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx  && { /lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install snd-via82xx ; /sbin/modprobe --quiet snd-seq ; }
  insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-grml/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via82xx.ko index=0

  # modprobe -v snd_pcm

  # modprobe -v snd_seq

  $ cat /dev/sndstat
  Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.16 emulation code)
  Kernel: Linux helios.selfip.org 2.6.26-grml #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 26 21:41:43 UTC 2008 i686
  Config options: 0

  Installed drivers: 
  Type 10: ALSA emulation

  Card config: 
  VIA 8237 with AD1980 at 0xc800, irq 22

  Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

  Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

  Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

  Timers:
  31: system timer

  Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

  $ ls /dev/dsp
  ls: cannot access /dev/dsp: No such file or directory

I.e., the problem is still the same. 

Also, as posted in another message, I tried 

  % dpkg --force-depends --purge alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-utils libasound2 libesd-alsa0 linux-sound-base

  % aptitude install alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-utils libasound2 libesd-alsa0 linux-sound-base

and the problem is still the same as well.

Thanks

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