Major Bug in Alsa 0.9 for over 1 year

Major Bug in Alsa 0.9 for over 1 year

[kreuzritter2000]

Hello,

I allways have the same bug when trying to modprobe the cs4232 or cs4236
sounddriver for my Terratec EWS654XL soundcard.

The bug is called unresolved symbol, this bug exists in ALSA 0.9 since the
existing of ALSA 0.9.

I tried nearly every ALSA 0.9x version.

Alsa 0.9.0  -> didn't work
Alsa 0.9.0beta1 -> didn't work
Alsa 0.9.0beta2 -> didn't work
Alsa 0.9.0beta3 -> didn't work
....
Alsa 0.9.0beta9 -> didn't work
Alsa 0.9.0beta10 -> didn't work
Alsa 0.9.0rc1 -> didn't work
Alsa 0.9.0rc2 -> "
Alsa 0.9.0rc3 -> "
Alsa 0.9.0rc5 -> "

I wrote nearly for every ALSA  version a bugreport including
a lot of pnpdumps, module.conf, dmesg output files etc. etc. but no one
could help me and fix this problem.
I am really fed up with this.

I can't write a driver myself, the only thing i can do for the alsa-project
is 
writing bug reports, i can't fix this bug, but you can, so it's up to you.

The soundcard "worked" fine with the old ALSA 0.5x drivers,
the soundcard and its two chips the cs4232/cs4236 and the sam9407
are well documented, sources, documentations it's all there.
So fixing this bug is not impossible!
But still, this bug was never fixed.

No, this time i won't sent plenty of pnpdump files, module.confs files etc.
to you.  If you need my pnpdump files, you will find many in the alsa-devel
mailinglist archives of it. (search for EWS64)
It never helped, and it won't help in future.
 
I am giving up, i am frustrated and this was my last bug report
to the alsa-mailinglist.

Perhaps i will stick with only one chip of my soundcard (the sam9407) and
use this great sam9407 OSS driver or buy a new soundcard -> problem solved.

I really tried everthing.
Every option, nothing did help.

Perhaps no one tried to go the steps i did step by step, like
installing Slackware (my main distribution), upgrading the kernel and
checking if the cs4232/6 drivers work on Slackware without this unresolved symbols.


There are 2 or 3 people on this mailinglist that have the same soundcard,
maybe that one could send me their modules.conf file and step by step
installation guide, that would be the last try, i could do that.
But i am not continuing this writing bug reports and  seeing no progress.
  
So that's the end.

Best Regards 
 Oliver C.


Here's the unsresolved symbol error:

modprobe snd-cs4232
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: init_module: No
such device
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: Hint: insmod
errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ
parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: insmod snd-cs4232
failed


insmod snd-cs4232
Using /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_card_new_R506deba1
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_card_free_Rff997e04
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_cs4231_pcm_R75bb3150
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_card_register_R4baee9de
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_verbose_printk_R49d4e4d1
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_opl3_create_R7cfd1ec5
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_opl3_hwdep_new_Rd214f5bf
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_cs4231_create_Rce85e590
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_cs4231_mixer_Re022cecf
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_wrapper_kfree
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_mpu401_uart_new_R606a10b8
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o: unresolved symbol
snd_cs4231_timer_R7a2d8746

insmod snd-cs4236
Using /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_cs4236_create_Racbbd0d2
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_card_new_R506deba1
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_card_free_Rff997e04
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_card_register_R4baee9de
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_verbose_printk_R49d4e4d1
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_opl3_create_R7cfd1ec5
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_cs4236_pcm_R25584f2a
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_cs4236_mixer_R248fd9c7
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_opl3_hwdep_new_Rd214f5bf
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_wrapper_kfree
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_mpu401_uart_new_R606a10b8
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: unresolved symbol
snd_cs4231_timer_R7a2d8746


modprobe snd-cs4236
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: init_module: No
such device
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: Hint: insmod
errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ
parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: insmod snd-cs4236
failed



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Re: Major Bug in Alsa 0.9 for over 1 year

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, kreuzritter2000@gmx.de wrote:

> modprobe snd-cs4236
> /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: init_module: No
> such device

What's output from /proc/isapnp after this message?

						Jaroslav

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Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project  http://www.alsa-project.org
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AW: Major Bug in Alsa 0.9 for over 1 year

[Karsten Wiese]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]Im Auftrag von
> kreuzritter2000@gmx.de
> Gesendet: Freitag, 25. Oktober 2002 06:03
> An: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: [Alsa-devel] Major Bug in Alsa 0.9 for over 1 year
>
> ........
> insmod snd-cs4232
> Using /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o
> /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o:
> unresolved symbol
> snd_card_new_R506deba1

the "_R506deba1" makes me think snd-cs4232.o is compiled with module
versionnumbers
and the module, snd_card_new lives in, haS been made without module version
numbers.

maybe recompiling & installing everything (kernel, alsa) without
moduleversionnumbers helps.

karsten


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Re: Major Bug in Alsa 0.9 for over 1 year

[Clemens Ladisch]

Karsten Wiese wrote:
> > insmod snd-cs4232
> > Using /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o
> > /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o:
> > unresolved symbol
> > snd_card_new_R506deba1
>
> the "_R506deba1" makes me think snd-cs4232.o is compiled with module
> versionnumbers
> and the module, snd_card_new lives in, haS been made without module version
> numbers.

No, that's caused by using insmod. Using modprobe instead ensures that all
required modules are loaded.

> > modprobe snd-cs4236
> > /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.o: init_module: No such device

Here, the module initialization code did run, but it didn't find the sound
card. This seems to be some problem with ISA PnP.

Oliver, please try specifying the configuration manually, i.e.
	modprobe snd-cs4236 isapnp=0 port=...
with all the options listed in the INSTALL file.


HTH
Clemens



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Re: Major Bug in Alsa 0.9 for over 1 year

[karsten wiese]

 --- Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> schrieb: >
Karsten Wiese wrote:
> > > insmod snd-cs4232
> > > Using
> /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o
> > >
> /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.o:
> > > unresolved symbol
> > > snd_card_new_R506deba1
> >
> > the "_R506deba1" makes me think snd-cs4232.o is
> compiled with module
> > versionnumbers
> > and the module, snd_card_new lives in, haS been made
> without module version
> > numbers.
> 
> No, that's caused by using insmod. Using modprobe instead
> ensures that all
> required modules are loaded.
right, but none the less the "_R506deba1" in
"snd_card_new_R506deba1" means the requesting module needs
"version information on module symbols". if the use of
"version information on module symbols" is not consistent
across kernel & modules, this message can occure.

karsten

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Re: Major Bug in Alsa 0.9 for over 1 year

[James Courtier-Dutton]

kreuzritter2000@gmx.de wrote:

 >Hello,
 >
 >I allways have the same bug when trying to modprobe the cs4232 or cs4236
 >sounddriver for my Terratec EWS654XL soundcard.
 >
 >The bug is called unresolved symbol, this bug exists in ALSA 0.9 since the
 >existing of ALSA 0.9.
 >
 >I tried nearly every ALSA 0.9x version.
 >
 >
 >
This "bug" is mostly causes by in-correct install of alsa.
In order to install alsa, you must first compile and install your own
kernel.
Once the kernel is installed and running, you can then compile and
install alsa-driver.
Once you have alsa-driver installed, with all the modules, you can then
compile and install alsa-lib.
Also, the kernel must be compiled with the same compiler as the 
alsa-driver modules. E.g. You cannot have compiled the kernel with gcc 
2.95 and compile alsa-driver with gcc 3.2. Using different compilers 
causes all sorts of strange un-predictable problems. I took a few days 
once tried to track down a kernel oops, only to find that simply 
compiling both kernel and kernel-module with the same compiler fixed the 
issue.
That should solve all "unresolved symbols".

Cheers
James





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