Oliver Lupton wrote:
> Trevor Bradley wrote:
>> As posted to linuxquestions.org.  They redirected me here...
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Please, for the sweet love of Zombie Jeebus, help me.
>>
>> I have two machines using an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, both running 
>> Slackware Linux 11.0. One machine is my home file+web server and 
>> MythTV backend (with 2.0 speakers). The other machine is my HTPC 
>> frontend and dual-boots to XP and Linux. That machine now has 5.1 
>> speakers that work great in
>>
>> It's a great motherboard and Linux works well on both, except for the 
>> sound. I can compile snd_hda_intel and it *kind of* works. If you 
>> touch the alsamixer volume, occasionally the sound dies. Or sometimes 
>> the sound doesn't come up at boot. Or, sometimes, if you mute and 
>> unmute the sound in alsamixer on the 5.1 speakers, 5 of the 6 
>> speakers start working. Or sometimes if you rerun alsaconf and 
>> alsamixer it starts working again, but often it doesn't. Mostly, 
>> sound doesn't work and it's frustrating.
>>
>> I've read around for various solutions, and decided to attempt to 
>> upgrade my alsa-driver to 1.0.13. However when I attempt to modprobe 
>> snd_hda_intel, I get the following error:
>>
>> FATAL: Error inserting snd_hda_intel 
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.18.2/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko): 
>> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>>
>> If I run dmesg, I get get errors of the type:
>>
>> snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
>> snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printd
>> snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_hidden_kzalloc
>> snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_hidden_kcalloc
>> snd_hda_intel: Unknown symbol snd_hidden_kfree
>>
>> using depmod on snd_hda_intel actually appears to delete the 
>> snd_hda_intel drivers!
>>
>> I've seen other posts mention "Unknown symbol", only to have the 
>> original poster come back and say they've "fixed the problem" with no 
>> further data. I can get things somewhat back to normal by recompiling 
>> my kernel snd_hda_intel drivers using make modules_install from my 
>> kernel directory.
>>
>> This is driving me nuts. Getting sound working on my HTPC and 
>> MythBackend is the one thing holding me back from using my 
>> mythfrontend properly.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions, or links to threads with concrete 
>> solutions? I appreciate the help.
>>
>> Trevor Bradley
>> Surrey, B.C., Canada
>
> I use Gentoo rather than Slackware, so that's where my experience 
> lies. But whenever I've seen the endless undefined symbol errors it's 
> been when working with both externally compiled alsa-driver modules 
> and those distributed with the kernel. On Gentoo then the alsa-driver 
> ones get installed to a different path in /lib/modules/, maybe search 
> there and check you don't have two instances of the same modules?
> That's just what the issue has been whenever I've seen or heard about 
> it, it could be something different.
>
> Out of interest, what chipset does your card have? I've been having 
> endless problems trying to get 5.1 to work at all on my Asus (A8N-VM 
> CSM, AD1986A chipset) using the hda-intel driver.
>
> Cheers,
> -ol

Yep, it appears this motherboard also as an AD1986A chipset. It'll be 
the starting point for my next search.

I can't check too well on this remotely unfortunately.  I'll have to try 
when I get home.  I don't see any duplicate drivers though.

Trevor Bradley
Surrey, B.C., Canada


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