Fellow Debs,
I am a new Debian user, but not totally new to Linux. I've installed Debian on my Dell
Inspiron 4100 as sort of a test platform and everything is going pretty smoothly save
for my sound support.
The first major problem is that I don't think exact drivers exist for my hardware, but
most other Inspiron owners agree that the ALSA snd-intel8x0 driver works. The chipset
in this laptop is actually a Cirrus Logic CS4205 with an Intel AC'97 controller, as
reported by lspci:
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Cirrus Logic: Unknown device 5959
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping-
SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
Region 1: I/O ports at dc80 [size=64]
Taking all of this to heart I downloaded the latest alsa-driver, alsa-util, and
alsa-lib packages from alsa-project.org and installed the intel8x0 support
(--with-cards=intel8x0).
The first thing that makes me worry is when I insmod snd-intel8x0, I get this (I
apologize for the length, but I don't want to snip it and leave out what might be
useful to someone smarter than myself):
Using /lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_card_proc_new_R3c98a932
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_lib_ioctl_Rc323d53e
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_ac97_update_bits_R48aa0c86
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_ac97_mixer_Rf28622d1
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_set_ops_R59bce080
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list_R0f390798
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_ac97_tune_hardware_R589f48ff
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_verbose_printk_R49d4e4d1
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_free_pci_pages_Ra5733117
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_suspend_all_Rc22033b0
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_card_new_R009f5ef3
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_kcalloc_R4da9e78a
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_lib_free_pages_Ra056f689
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_new_Ra11cd823
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_ac97_resume_R2fac1f86
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_device_new_R276a8d46
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages_Rc1444657
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_ac97_set_rate_R19e62fc8
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_mpu401_uart_new_Re2715b25
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_iprintf_R2f0b152f
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_card_register_R15a0b116
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer_R5fbf3b4b
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_malloc_pci_pages_Re045e146
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_period_elapsed_Rfba6d13f
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_card_free_R976e9df0
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pci_pages_for_all_R98a0b209
What could be causing this? I am using the latest versions of the alsa packages
(0.9.4), and even when I get the modules loaded I surely get no sound and errors about
the default device being unopenable because the file isn't found. I've searched high
and low for an answer and returning empty-handed, I turn to debian-users.
Thanks much!
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Aaron Bieber
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