Alsa 0.9beta8a with 2.4.{12,13} ?

Alsa 0.9beta8a with 2.4.{12,13} ?

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi folks,

Up to kernel version 2.4.12 the Alsa 0.9beta8a version was working
for my needs. Sometimes the startup script claimed that there is
no soundcard (via686a), but after one or two restarts of this 
script the onboard chip was detected.

With 2.4.13 I had no such luck:

{root@bilbo:harri 937} /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
Shutting down sound driver: done
Starting sound driver: snd-card-via686a Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd.o will taint the kernel: no license
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-seq-device.o will taint the kernel: no license
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-rawmidi.o will taint the kernel: no license
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-mpu401-uart.o will taint the kernel: no license
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-timer.o will taint the kernel: no license
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-pcm.o will taint the kernel: no license
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-ac97-codec.o will taint the kernel: no license
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-card-via686a.o will taint the kernel: no license
done
/usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1026: No soundcards found...


I get this _every_ time with 2.4.13 . 


Of course I know that this is not the Alsa EMail list. But
maybe you have some ideas which change has broken Alsa
completely and give the Alsa folks a hint.


Many thanx

Harri

Re: Alsa 0.9beta8a with 2.4.{12,13} ?

[Robert Love]

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 17:15, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Up to kernel version 2.4.12 the Alsa 0.9beta8a version was working
> for my needs. Sometimes the startup script claimed that there is
> no soundcard (via686a), but after one or two restarts of this 
> script the onboard chip was detected.

The Warnings are unrelated and are because no MODULE_LICENSE tag has
been declared in each of those modules.  For each, the ALSA folks need
to put a:

	MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

in the source.  I am assuming ALSA is GPL, and has no additional
restrictions.

I'm looking over the ChangeLog for 2.4.12->2.4.13 and I don't see
anything that sticks out as "I broke ALSA!"  The ALSA team will figure
it out.

	Robert Love

Re: Alsa 0.9beta8a with 2.4.{12,13} ?

[Daniel T. Chen]

Regarding the tainted modules warnings: this was fixed a week or so ago in
cvs for both 0.5.11 and head.

---
Dan Chen                 crimsun@email.unc.edu
GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Harald Dunkel wrote:

> {root@bilbo:harri 937} /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
> Shutting down sound driver: done
> Starting sound driver: snd-card-via686a Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd.o will taint the kernel: no license
> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-seq-device.o will taint the kernel: no license
> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-rawmidi.o will taint the kernel: no license
> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-mpu401-uart.o will taint the kernel: no license
> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-timer.o will taint the kernel: no license
> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-pcm.o will taint the kernel: no license
> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-ac97-codec.o will taint the kernel: no license
> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.13/misc/snd-card-via686a.o will taint the kernel: no license
> done
> /usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1026: No soundcards found...