No more audio after upgrading the packages on RNH

[Nicolas.Castagne at imag.fr]

Hi again,

A few new infos about the problem with sound.

As far as I could check it, the /etc/module.conf are identical on the two
machines (one upgraded, no sound, the other not upgraded, no sound).

The current version of the updgraded system is (uname -r)
2.4.21-27.0.2.EL

kudzu -p detectes the sound card, with the following output :
class: AUDIO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: i810_audio
desc: "Intel Corp.|82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 24d5
subVendorId: 1028
subDeviceId: 0156
pciType: 1
pcibus:  0
pcidev: 1f
pcifn:  5


Now...

We have just recovered sound outputs by copying the whole kernel/sound
repertory from the old kernel version to the upgraded machines :
% cp -r /lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/sound/
/lib/modules/2.4.21-27.0.2.EL/kernel
(the /lib/modules/2.4.21-27.0.2.EL/kernel/sound did not exist).

Now the sound is OK... But that is no doubt a bad way of doing, and we
would prefer to do it properly ! Any advice ?


Moreover, it seems that the alsa lib is still not runing well...
The /proc/asound/version and /proc/asound/cards directories still do not
exist.
I was unable to compile, for example, the JACK audio server, because
./configure does not find the alsa lib in pkg-config... :

%jack ./configure
%for pkg-config... /home/castagne/kde3.3.2/bin/pkg-config
%checking for alsa >= 1.0.0... Package alsa was not found in the pkg-config
%search path.
%Perhaps you should add the directory containing `alsa.pc'
%to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
%No package 'alsa' found
%
%configure: error: Library requirements (alsa >= 1.0.0) not met; consider
%adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are
%in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

Well, this may be due to something else... But it may also be related !

Thx
Nicolas






> Nicolas.Castagne at imag.fr wrote:
>> % ls /etc/module.conf
>> alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
>> alias eth0 e1000
>> pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
>> >/dev/null
>> 2>&1 || :
>> alias usb-controller usb-uhci
>> alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
>> # Turn off mcdx modules
>> alias block-major-20 off
>> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>> alias char-major-116 snd
>> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
>> alias char-major-14 soundcore
>> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
>> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
>> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
>> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
>> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>> post-install snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>> pre-remove snd-card-0 /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>> alias char-major-195 nvidia
>
> okay looks to me like it is trying to find a specific kernel sound
> driver and you don't have it (or your modules.conf is totally wrong).
>
> what are the lines referring to sound  in the *functional* machine's
> /etc/modules.conf? (Assuming the two machines are identical)
>
> which kernel version are you now updated to?
> # uname -r
>
> UIAVMM the kernel is trying to load snd-intel8x0 as a driver, which
> certainly does not exist on my system (although the one I am sat in
> front of now has quite an old kernel on it) any where in
> /lib/modules/kernel/drivers
>
> what happens if you run
> # kudzu -p
> (as root?)
>
> Stuart
> --
> Stuart Sears RHCE RHCX
> Sysadmin, trainer and general ne'er-do-well
>
>
>
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