[PlanetCCRMA] Cannot Start ALSA -

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 23:26 -0700, Andrew Leichter wrote:
> OK.  I'm at a loss.  I'm not much of a kernel/ALSA/OSS guru so I need
> some help.  Here is the situation.  I run fedora core 4.  Before
> discovering planetccrma, I simply tried to run jack/hydrogen/ardour on
> the yum updated kernel.  That kernel is 2.6.17-1.2141_FC4.  I have
> aquired a Delat66 sound card and the M-Audio website referred me to the
> OSS.  So I downloaded it and installed it.  After having horrible
> latency problems I discovered ALSA and figured I'd better try that
> instead of OSS.  I down loaded it from the ALSA website along with the
> driver ice1712.  I could not get it to work.  I'm not sure if I had it
> before and blasted it away or what ever.  I kept on getting:
> 
> Starting sound driver snd-ice1712 WARNING: Error inserting snd
> (/lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2141_FC4/updates/acore/snd.ko): Unknown symbol
> in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> 
> I could not solve this issue so I downloaded and installed planetccrma. 
> 2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma.  It worked perfectly.  No latency issues or
> any problems at all.  I had it running for about three days.  I rebooted
> the box tonight and now it won't work at all on that kernel.  (I've made
> sure I'm running the correct kernel via uname -a). 

Edit /etc/modprobe.conf (carefully) and make sure there are no extra
spaces at the end of the "options" lines. If there are any just erase
them, save the file and do a "/sbin/depmod -a". Then try to restart
sound, it should work now ("/etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart")

-- Fernando


>  All that being said
> here is the errors I get when trying to run alsasound.
> 
> Starting sound driver snd-ice1712 WARNING: Error inserting snd
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/acore/snd.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> WARNING: Error inserting snd_seq_device
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/acore/seq/snd-seq-device.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> WARNING: Error inserting snd_rawmidi
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/acore/snd-rawmidi.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> WARNING: Error inserting snd_mpu401_uart
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/drivers/mpu401/snd-mpu401-uart.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> WARNING: Error inserting snd_i2c
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/i2c/snd-i2c.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> WARNING: Error inserting snd_timer
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/acore/snd-timer.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> WARNING: Error inserting snd
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/acore/snd.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> WARNING: Error inserting snd_timer
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/acore/snd-timer.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> FATAL: Error inserting snd_pcm
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/acore/snd-pcm.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> WARNING: Error running install command for snd_pcm
> WARNING: Error inserting snd_ac97_codec
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> WARNING: Error inserting snd_cs8427
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/i2c/snd-cs8427.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> WARNING: Error inserting snd_ak4xxx_adda
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/i2c/other/snd-ak4xxx-adda.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> WARNING: Error inserting snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/pci/ice1712/snd-ice17xx-ak4xxx.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> FATAL: Error inserting snd_ice1712
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/pci/ice1712/snd-ice1712.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>                                                            [FAILED]
> Starting sound driver and FATAL: Module and not found.
>                                                            [FAILED]
> Starting sound driver and FATAL: Module and not found.
>                                                            [FAILED]
> 
> Here is my /etc/modprobe.conf file
> alias eth0 forcedeth
> alias scsi_hostadapter sata_sil
> alias snd-card-0 and snd-ice1712
> options snd-ice1712 index=0
> remove snd-ice1712 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ice1712
> alias snd-card-1 and snd-intel8x0
> options snd-intel8x0 index=1
> remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
> }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
> alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 sata_nv
> alias eth1 de4x5
> 
> Any ideas?  I tried to remove all the rpms and reinstall them from the
> apt archive directory.  It did not work.