problem with ALSA 1.09 and 2.6 kernel (AGNULA/Demudi)

problem with ALSA 1.09 and 2.6 kernel (AGNULA/Demudi)

[Dave Phillips]

Greetings:

  Here's the hardware:

    HP Omnibook 4150 with NeoMagic NM256AV media chipset
    Midisport 2x2 USB MIDI interface
    CoreSound PDAudioCF PCMCIA digital audio input card

  Here's the software:

    AGNULA/Demudi 1.2.1 with 2.6.12 multimedia kernel
    ALSA 1.0.9rc2

  Here's the trouble:

    Although the snd-nm256 module loads without complaint 'cat 
/proc/asound/cards' reports no soundcards in the system. Ditto if I load 
the snd-pcaudiocf module. Still no soundcard. I'll try loading the 
Midisport after I get basic services working. :)

    I've tried loading the snd-cs4232 module instead (I've used it for 
this machine under the 2.4 kernels with no troubles) but it fails with 
these messages:

    demudi:/home/dlphilp# modprobe snd-cs4232
    FATAL: Error inserting snd_cs4232    
    
(/lib/modules/2.6.12-3-multimedia-686/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.ko): 
No such device
    FATAL: Error running install command for snd_cs4232

  I've appended relevant messages from dmesg and lsmod below. I'm not in 
a rush to get this working and I'm willing to spend time on it, so any 
suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Guenter Geiger suggested that I 
may need to load some extra kernel options but at this time I don't know 
which to try. Any advice out there ? :)

Best regards,

Dave Phillips

demudi:/home/dlphilp# lsmod |grep snd
snd_pdaudiocf          17988  0
snd_ak4117             10240  1 snd_pdaudiocf
snd_nm256              70368  0
snd_ac97_codec         83320  1 snd_nm256
snd_ad1848_lib         17920  0
pcmcia                 28480  7 snd_pdaudiocf,serial_cs,pcnet_cs
pcmcia_core            52628  6 
snd_pdaudiocf,serial_cs,pcnet_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd_opl3_lib           11648  0
snd_hwdep               9632  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_cs4231_lib         27776  0
snd_pcm_oss            53792  0
snd_mixer_oss          19200  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                96580  7 
snd_pdaudiocf,snd_ak4117,snd_nm256,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ad1848_lib,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc         10116  2 snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         8832  0
snd_seq_dummy           3844  0
snd_seq_oss            36416  0
snd_seq_midi            9248  0
snd_rawmidi            26400  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      8320  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                55888  9 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              26148  4 snd_opl3_lib,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          8716  6 
snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    58404  18 
snd_pdaudiocf,snd_ak4117,snd_nm256,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ad1848_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10624  1 snd

demudi:/home/dlphilp# dmesg |grep CS4232
CS4232 soundcard not found or device busy

demudi:/home/dlphilp# dmesg |grep acpi 
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001




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Re: problem with ALSA 1.09 and 2.6 kernel (AGNULA/Demudi)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:34:13 -0400,
Dave Phillips wrote:
> 
> /proc/asound/cards' reports no soundcards in the system. Ditto if I load 
> the snd-pcaudiocf module. Still no soundcard. I'll try loading the 
> Midisport after I get basic services working. :)

pdaudiocf is a pccard driver.  It's usually loaded via cardmgr.
Adding a config file pdaudiocf.conf (found in alsa-drivers) to
/etc/pcmcia should work.  2.6.13 kernel will require even no longer
such a config file.


Takashi


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Re: problem with ALSA 1.09 and 2.6 kernel (AGNULA/Demudi)

[Dave Phillips]

Hi Takashi:

  Some updates: I now have the CS4232, the PDAudioCF (Thank you!), and 
the Midisport 2x2 working with Demudi 1.2.1 and ALSA 1.0.9rc2. My final 
hurdle shouldn't be too difficult to get over:

    demudi:/home/dlphilp# modprobe snd-virmidi
    FATAL: Error inserting snd_virmidi
    
(/lib/modules/2.6.12-3-multimedia-686/kernel/sound/drivers/snd-virmidi.ko): 
No such device

  The snd-seq-virmidi module is loaded. What am I missing ?

Best,

dp

Takashi Iwai wrote:

>At Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:34:13 -0400,
>Dave Phillips wrote:
>  
>
>>/proc/asound/cards' reports no soundcards in the system. Ditto if I load 
>>the snd-pcaudiocf module. Still no soundcard. I'll try loading the 
>>Midisport after I get basic services working. :)
>>    
>>
>
>pdaudiocf is a pccard driver.  It's usually loaded via cardmgr.
>Adding a config file pdaudiocf.conf (found in alsa-drivers) to
>/etc/pcmcia should work.  2.6.13 kernel will require even no longer
>such a config file.
>
>
>Takashi
>
>  
>



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Re: problem with ALSA 1.09 and 2.6 kernel (AGNULA/Demudi)

[Clemens Ladisch]

Dave Phillips wrote:
>   Some updates: I now have the CS4232, the PDAudioCF (Thank you!), and
> the Midisport 2x2 working with Demudi 1.2.1 and ALSA 1.0.9rc2. My final
> hurdle shouldn't be too difficult to get over:
>
>     demudi:/home/dlphilp# modprobe snd-virmidi
>     FATAL: Error inserting snd_virmidi
>
> (/lib/modules/2.6.12-3-multimedia-686/kernel/sound/drivers/snd-virmidi.ko):
> No such device

Any error message in the system log?

Probably the index option isn't set correctly?  How does your
modprobe.conf (or whatever Demudi uses) look now?


Regards,
Clemens



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Re: problem with ALSA 1.09 and 2.6 kernel (AGNULA/Demudi)

[Dave Phillips]

Greetings:

  No helpful message in /var/log/syslog.

  From the reports of other users I've concluded that snd-virmidi is 
broken in 2.6.12. I added this line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base :

install snd-virmidi modprobe --ignore-install snd-virmidi && 
/lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install snd-virmidi

  I ran update-modules and tried 'modprobe snd-virmidi' again but 
received the same error.

  If this is a known problem is there a patch for recompiling ALSA for 
the 2.6.12 kernel ?

Best regards,

dp




Clemens Ladisch wrote:

>Dave Phillips wrote:
>  
>
>>  Some updates: I now have the CS4232, the PDAudioCF (Thank you!), and
>>the Midisport 2x2 working with Demudi 1.2.1 and ALSA 1.0.9rc2. My final
>>hurdle shouldn't be too difficult to get over:
>>
>>    demudi:/home/dlphilp# modprobe snd-virmidi
>>    FATAL: Error inserting snd_virmidi
>>
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12-3-multimedia-686/kernel/sound/drivers/snd-virmidi.ko):
>>No such device
>>    
>>
>
>Any error message in the system log?
>
>Probably the index option isn't set correctly?  How does your
>modprobe.conf (or whatever Demudi uses) look now?
>
>
>Regards,
>Clemens
>
>  
>



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Re: problem with ALSA 1.09 and 2.6 kernel (AGNULA/Demudi)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:05:21 -0400,
Dave Phillips wrote:
> 
> Greetings:
> 
>   No helpful message in /var/log/syslog.
> 
>   From the reports of other users I've concluded that snd-virmidi is 
> broken in 2.6.12.

It works fine here.
Make sure that you have no module options for snd-virmidi in
/etc/modprobe.conf, /etc/modprobe.conf.local and /etc/modprobe.d/*
files.

>  I added this line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base :
> 
> install snd-virmidi modprobe --ignore-install snd-virmidi && 
> /lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install snd-virmidi
> 
>   I ran update-modules and tried 'modprobe snd-virmidi' again but 
> received the same error.
> 
>   If this is a known problem is there a patch for recompiling ALSA for 
> the 2.6.12 kernel ?

NO, I don't remember.


Takashi


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