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Eidos

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From: France

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 5

[solved] thinkpad_acpi : Unknown symbol in module

Hello,

Recently I have problem with thinkpad_acpi which dont load anymore :

1:07 thomas@laptom ~% sudo modprobe thinkpad_acpi
FATAL: Error inserting thinkpad_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
zsh: exit 1     sudo modprobe thinkpad_acpi

and dmesg says :

thinkpad_acpi: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add (err 0)
thinkpad_acpi: Unknown symbol snd_card_register (err 0)
thinkpad_acpi: Unknown symbol snd_card_free (err 0)
thinkpad_acpi: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1 (err 0)
thinkpad_acpi: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_boolean_mono_info (err 0)
thinkpad_acpi: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_notify (err 0)
thinkpad_acpi: Unknown symbol snd_card_create (err 0)

But I can't if it came with my kernel update or my recent migration to OSS

1:07 thomas@laptom ~% uname -a
Linux laptom 2.6.35-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 30 19:57:05 UTC 2010 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

If you have any suggestion, please let me know
thanks

Last edited by Eidos (2010-11-06 16:31:02)

slytux

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From: New York

Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 136

Re: [solved] thinkpad_acpi : Unknown symbol in module

Since it is an external module, you should recompile the module if you updated the kernel.
Just install the package again (you should have the kernel26-headers already installed).

Last edited by slytux (2010-11-06 15:50:05)

Eidos

Member

From: France

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 5

Re: [solved] thinkpad_acpi : Unknown symbol in module

thinkpad_acpi is not an external module
but your hit helped me : as instead of recompiling the module, I had to recompil kernel26
I don't understand why it works now but it works !
so thank you

Maxr

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-02-04

Posts: 7

Re: [solved] thinkpad_acpi : Unknown symbol in module

I got the same problem here. I'm running arch64 on a X201 (linux 3.0).

"modprobe thinkpad_acpi" and dmesg give me exactly the same as Eidos already wrote (see above).

What I tried: reinstall the kernel (stock one from core). Effect: modprobe works! But, sadly, after next boot the same error occurs! Reinstalling will work again, but that's not the way to go, is it?

I don't know what to do... Can someone help?

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: [solved] thinkpad_acpi : Unknown symbol in module

Maxr,

this thread has been marked solved. Please open a new one stating your problem.
You may there link back to this thread for reference if necessary.

Closing this one.

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