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luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

[Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

Hi all,
with the last kernel update my audio card doesn't work anymore.
I obtain these error messages (dmesg output):

snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_dma_reserve_buf
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_dma_free_pages
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_malloc_pages
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_dma_get_reserved_buf
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_dma_alloc_pages
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_free_pages
snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_interval_refine
snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_rule_add
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_pcm_close
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_resume
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_new
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_limit_hw_rates
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_pcm_open
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_set_rate
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_update_bits
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_mixer
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_bus
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_dma_free_pages
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_pcm_double_rate_rules
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_update_power
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_suspend
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_get_short_name
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_pcm_assign
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_msbits
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_dma_alloc_pages
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
snd_intel8x0: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_tune_hardware

My audio card is:

Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

With the previous kernel there was not problem at all.

Last edited by luca (2007-05-15 19:05:21)

henryouly

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Registered: 2007-05-03

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

My alsa doesn't work either.

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Lenovo Sunrise 125C Laptop
Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)
Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

ukw

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Registered: 2007-05-09

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

Same thing here.

ukw

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Registered: 2007-05-09

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

Seems to be fixed !

luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

I can confirm that now alsa works great!!

tomeil

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Registered: 2006-10-13

Posts: 13

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

Solved? How have you solved the problem, please?
My sound (ali5451) still doesn't work with kernel26-2.6.21.1-8 ...

luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

Hi tomeil,
sorry for my incomplete reply
The strange thing is that a reboot fixed the problem

tomeil

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Registered: 2006-10-13

Posts: 13

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

Thank you Luca.
Anyway it seems that for other chipsets a reboot is not sufficient to get the sound working.

henryouly

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Registered: 2007-05-03

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

It doesn't work with the sound card on my laptop....It should be using snd_intel8x0.(see my signature) Quite strange!
btw, I grep "snd_intel" in dmesg output but get nothing about the sound module.

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Lenovo Sunrise 125C Laptop
Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)
Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

henryouly

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Registered: 2007-05-03

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

hmmmmmmmmm, finally make the sound work on my laptop. It is not because of the kernel, but I find that the volume of headphone had been set to mute. After unmuting the headphone, it works. I originally thought that only Master and PCM should be unmute for the sound working.

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Lenovo Sunrise 125C Laptop
Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)
Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

Doehni

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-05-19

Posts: 175

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

@tomeil:
I have the same sound card and problem... I already posted a bug report:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7143
Hopefully this will get fixed soon...

Marcel-

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From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

I don't get those error messages, but don't get any sound as well. I own an HP DC7100SFF with integrated chipset on an Intel motherboard.

# lspci -v | grep -i audio
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

# lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_oss            29056  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                46800  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6796  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            38816  0 
snd_mixer_oss          14336  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0           28700  0 
snd_ac97_codec         95396  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                2432  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                68484  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              19076  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    44388  10 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6496  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7816  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

# dmesg | grep intel8x0
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54858 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000

As this is the first time I installed Linux on this machine, I cannot say whether the onboard chipset works with an earlier kernel (or alsa) version. I am in the audio group, sound (even 'headphones') is unmuted... Alsamixer says "Chip: Analog Devices AD1981B", is this correct?

The Alsa-site suggests putting some options in modules.conf. Is this method still supported in Arch Linux? Or has this nothing to do with my sound chipset? At least it doesn't solve the problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by Marcel- (2007-05-22 23:28:16)

Marcel-

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From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: [Solved] Kernel26-2.6.21-8 alsa problem

At last I managed to hear something. It was stupid mistake, I didn't know that alsamixer had a separate mute/unmute-flag, I just thought that upping the volumes was enough.