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Soumyadeep

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From: kolkata,India

Registered: 2009-09-09

Posts: 218

[SOLVED]no snd-hda-intel module found

I have oss installed which works flawlessly and today tried to install alsa. Installed all the necessary packages according to the wiki, but alsa says no sound card detected. My card is a nvidia onboard souncard which uses snd-hda-intel module, but if I want to load it, it says:

sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel
FATAL: Module snd_hda_intel not found.

I have also followed this page http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index. … -hda-intel but it says

sudo modinfo soundcore
ERROR: modinfo: could not find module soundcore

I'm using the default kernel

uname -a
Linux hackbox 2.6.33-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 4 10:27:30 CEST 2010 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

so whats the prob guys?

Last edited by Soumyadeep (2010-05-01 12:16:39)

benob

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Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 187

Re: [SOLVED]no snd-hda-intel module found

On my machine,

pacman -Qo /lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko is owned by kernel26 2.6.33.3-1

Do you have this package installed?
Did you mess up with modules so that they are not found anymore?
Did you mess up with initscripts so that depmod is not called?

grep depmod /etc/rc.*
/etc/rc.sysinit:status "Updating Module Dependencies" /sbin/depmod -A

Did you messup with modprobe configuration?

grep intel /etc/modprobe.d/*
/etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf:alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
/etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf:alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

Soumyadeep

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From: kolkata,India

Registered: 2009-09-09

Posts: 218

Re: [SOLVED]no snd-hda-intel module found

I dont seem to have any sound directory under /lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel

ls /lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/
arch  crypto  drivers  fs  lib  mm  net  oss

grep depmod /etc/rc.*
/etc/rc.sysinit:status "Updating Module Dependencies" /sbin/depmod -A

and also,

grep intel /etc/modprobe.d/*

this returned nothing.

The only thing I can think of is installing splashy a few days ago and building initramfs with mkinitcpio

Last edited by Soumyadeep (2010-05-01 11:49:08)

benob

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Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 187

Re: [SOLVED]no snd-hda-intel module found

Reinstall core/kernel26 to make sure you have the files; Then re-follow the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa for configuring alsa. I believe that alsaconf generates /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf.

Soumyadeep

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From: kolkata,India

Registered: 2009-09-09

Posts: 218

Re: [SOLVED]no snd-hda-intel module found

reinstallation fixed the module issues and alsa is running but when accessing alsamixer it says:

alsamixer 
ALSA lib control.c:867:(snd_ctl_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_oss.so
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

surely a minor issue, but would love ur help

Soumyadeep

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From: kolkata,India

Registered: 2009-09-09

Posts: 218

Re: [SOLVED]no snd-hda-intel module found

installing alsa-plugins did the trick, ty benob !

benob

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Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 187

Re: [SOLVED]no snd-hda-intel module found

Great!

I wonder why in the first place you didn't have this file.