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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Stone wrote: > I have downloaded and tried to install alsa (as i had no sound at all > through X) Compiles ok, but i get the following error when i try to > modprobe...; > > > snd-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_sb16dsp_pcm > snd-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_sbmixer_read <SNIP> > > Not being a programmer at all, i have no idea what this means.. or how > to fix it... It just means it was looking for some executable code supplying that routine/entry/whatever, and didn't find it. In this context that means it didn't find the other alsa modules (or know where to look for them, or which ones to chose). > Can anyone help me please ? Alsa seems particularly painful at this, it maybe as simple as "depmod -a" if not... The debian documentation on this got my laptop sound working (although I must confess I've since broke it again - fiddle fiddle ;-). My laptop is on a break, but the documentation (in the alsa packages) basically walks you though aliasing /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer to different modules in the alsa module settings file, then the Debian depmod tools pick this up and include it in the modules definition (through a symbolic link I believe - which you might never have known it existed), so it then knows which modules to load. IIRC it goes in /etc/alsa/0.9/.... (assuming your using 0.9). Then once all the modules load without error - no sound as the volume defaults to OFF - <doh> - and in my case the alsa mixer didn't like my sound card. There seems to be a lot of scope for automating this better in Debian. I have a request from the maintainer to upgrade to unstable alsa packages to see if the mixer works - so if you find the file and alias /dev/dsp and friends and it still doesn't work I should be an expert by Monday ;-) The docs might be in the source packages. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+Orf8GFXfHI9FVgYRAp7SAJ9J7DFlzL80ln+NJ6c6IiFW2vc3gQCg1jQ9 i8im2BL7y4+YatcIMFP9ZmM= =cyiS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.