[PlanetCCRMA] No audio with FC4 kernel upgrade

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:34 -0400, Bruce Elliott wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install Planet CCRMA on my FC4 installation, but I've 
> gotten only so far as the kernel upgrade, and the sound driver doesn't work.
> 
> Here's what I get when I boot into the new kernel (ver. no. in error 
> message below) and try to restart alsasound:
> 
> [root@localhost /]# /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
> Shutting down sound driver                                 [  OK  ]
> Starting sound driver snd-via82xx FATAL: Error inserting snd_via82xx 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/updates/pci/snd-via82xx.ko): 
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>                                                            [FAILED]

Check the /etc/modprobe.conf file, edit it (carefully) and make sure
there are no spaces at the end of lines, specially at the end of the
"options " lines. Save the file, run (as root) "/sbin/depmod -a" and try
restarting sound, it should work...

-- Fernando


> I see a similar message during the boot-up sequence, but it flashes by 
> so quickly I haven't been able to write down the exact message.  It's 
> something to the same effect, though.
> 
> Also, KDE complains when I start it up, saying it can't initialize the 
> sound driver, but I'm guessing that's a secondary problem that will go 
> away if I fix the main problem with the sound module.