[PlanetCCRMA] Sound Not Working

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Fri Aug 18 18:25:02 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 21:08 -0400, John Dey wrote:
> I had a working sound system with SoundBlaster Live.  The module  
> snd_emu10k1 doesn't seem to load.  Sound runs on the updated stock FC5  
> and on XP (dual boot).  The following shows the message I get when  
> booting.  I also show the dmesg messages.  Any help would be greatly  
> appreciated.  If you need more info re hardware, please let me know and  
> I will provide.  Thanks
> 
> 
> [root@robo5 log]# /sbin/modprobe snd_emu10k1
> FATAL: Error inserting snd_emu10k1  
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/pci/emu10k1/snd- 
> emu10k1.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> FATAL: Error running install command for snd_emu10k1
> 
> 
> [root@robo5 log]# dmesg | grep snd
> snd_emu10k1: Unknown parameter `'
> snd_emu10k1: Unknown parameter `'
> snd_emu10k1: Unknown parameter `'
> snd_emu10k1: Unknown parameter `'
> snd_emu10k1: Unknown parameter `'

I don't know what messes this up but... Edit
(carefully) /etc/modprobe.conf and inspect all the "options" lines.
Remove any extra spaces at the end of those lines. After saving the file
run "/sbin/depmod -a" (all this as root, of course). Restart alsa and
everything should be fine...

-- Fernando