On Monday 22 Apr 2002 11:14, Holger Jenczewski wrote: > Hello all, > > the following problem: > Installed a SuSE 7.2 distro freshly to my disk. Set up alsa (it has > 0.5.10b) using YaST2 - both soundcards (Terratec DMX w/ Driver es1968, and > Midiman Delta 44 w/ driver ice1712) were detected and configured correctly. > Everything worked. > > Then built a vanilla 2.4.17 kernel to replace the obsolete 2.4.4 from the > SuSE. Built sound support as module (soundcore), installed kernel, then > built alsa-0.9.0beta8a (later beta12, but didn't work either) drivers, > libs, utils, tools and oss support. Build and installation went without > errors. > > But when I tried to load the sound modules, the following happened: > The supplementary modules (like snd-pcm-*, snd-oss-* etc.) all loaded > properly, but when it came to load the snd-card-* modules (es1968 resp. > ice1712), kernel croaked "module snd-card-* : no such device". > > Found a hint in usenet regarding upgrade of modutils. Upgraded them to > v2.4.15 (latest), then rebuilt everything. This led to an additional > warning, telling me "warning: loading module snd-card-* will taint the > kernel: no license", and "You are trying to load a module without a GPL > compatible license", which is total nonsense! Still, the "no such device" > message shows up, and the modules don't load. Furthermore, kernel tells me > that the snd-card-* modules have unresolved symbols, and depmod refuses to > resolve these symbols due to the 'missing GPL' problem. > > What the f*** is going on here?
The -card is obsolete naming -- it's just snd-* now (The docs only got updated a few days ago), so just remove the -card in modules.conf (e.g. snd-card-ice1712 -> snd-ice1712). James -- +------------------------+-------------------------------+---------+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | University of Birmingham | -- \/` | | Ph: 0121-414-6462. Fax: 0121-414-3722 | | +--------------------------------------------------------+---------+ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
