Alsasound not working - was "Re: [mythtv-users] It half works!"

[Alex Davidson]

No sign of any "snd-" stuff in lsmod.

Running:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound start
returned the following:
starting sound driver: snd-sb16
/lib/modules/2.4.20-9/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol
schedule_work
/lib/modules/2.4.20-9/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.20-9/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-9/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: insmod snd-sb16 failed
done

Would I be better off spending some hard-earned on a sound card that will
work out of the box you think?  (Is there even such a thing?)

Alex

----- Original Message -----
> ...
> > alsactl -f /etc/asound.state store
> > which gave me an error:
> > alsactl: save_state:1050: No soundcards found...
> ...
> > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
> ...
>
> looks like your ALSA drivers may not be loading correctly.
>
> "lsmod" should show stuff like this:
>
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> snd-pcm-oss            39044   0 (autoclean)
> snd-mixer-oss          13720   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> r128                   80888   1
> snd-seq-midi            4096   0 (unused)
> snd-seq-midi-event      3336   0 [snd-seq-midi]
> snd-seq                37648   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
> snd-ens1371            11564   0
> snd-pcm                59712   0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371]
> snd-timer              14824   0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
> snd-page-alloc          5116   0 [snd-pcm]
> snd-rawmidi            14016   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart
snd-ens1371]
> snd-seq-device          4368   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
> snd-ac97-codec         36864   0 [snd-ens1371]
> snd                    30756   0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi
> snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-mpu401-uart snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer
> snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
> soundcore               3844  11 [snd]
>
> If not try running this as root:
>
>      /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound start
>
> Resolve any errors it reports. When it succeeds, "lsmod"
> will show all the "snd-" stuff.
>
> --  bjm