Hi,

Have been spending quite some time with my linux installation to get the sound / audio to work.

Eventually, installed alsa v1.0.14rc2 , after I uninstalled all the old alsa drivers. I get errors in dmesg and the /proc/asound directory doesn't exist.

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller AHCI (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 110M (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
06:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
06:0b.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
06:0b.3 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller


uname -a
Linux 2.6.9-42.0.8.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Jan 30 14:17:27 PST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

nd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_device_new
snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_register_device_for_dev
snd: Unknown symbol sound_class1
snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_info_register
snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_info_create_module_entry
snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_info_free_entry
snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_iprintf
snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_ecards_limit
snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_oss_info_register
snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_unregister_device
snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_device_new
snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_register_device_for_dev
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_info_register
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_info_create_module_entry
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_unregister_ioctl_compat
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_timer_notify
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_timer_interrupt
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_info_free_entry
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_add_device_sysfs_file
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_info_get_str
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_register_ioctl
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_add
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_iprintf
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_major
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_unregister_device
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_timer_new
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_device_new
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_unregister_ioctl
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_lookup_minor_data
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_register_ioctl_compat
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_info_create_card_entry
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_power_wait
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_device_free
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_remove
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_register_device_for_dev
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_device_register
snd_pcm: Unknown symbol snd_info_get_line
snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_card_proc_new
snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_find_id
snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_verbose_printk
snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_component_add
snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_iprintf
snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_elem_read
snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_elem_write
snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
snd_hda_codec: Unknown symbol snd_device_new


Thanks in advance,


Utee

You dont have alsa installed.

what does say?

# lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_utf8 3649 1
vmnet 47368 18
vmmon 160020 7
md5 5953 1
ipv6 284193 12
parport_pc 29569 0
lp 15345 0
parport 44493 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 24393 1
i2c_dev 13889 0
i2c_core 28865 1 i2c_dev
sunrpc 176441 1
ds 21705 2
ipt_REJECT 8897 1
ipt_state 3393 10
ip_conntrack 54297 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 4673 1
ip_tables 21825 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
dm_multipath 22225 0
toshiba_acpi 8541 0
button 9313 0
battery 11465 0
ac 6985 0
usb_storage 71561 2
yenta_socket 23105 0
pcmcia_core 69841 2 ds,yenta_socket
uhci_hcd 35049 0
ehci_hcd 33989 0
hw_random 7393 0
snd_page_alloc 14480 0
e1000 121017 0
dm_snapshot 19073 0
dm_zero 3649 0
dm_mirror 32337 0
ext3 138193 4
jbd 69105 1 ext3
dm_mod 68097 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ahci 18629 2
libata 78345 1 ahci
sd_mod 19393 6
scsi_mod 141457 4 usb_storage,ahci,libata,sd_mod

As I replied in my email, you should see something like this:
[tobind@razman my-builds]$ /sbin/lsmod|fgrep snd
snd_rtctimer 3276 1
snd_seq_dummy 3620 0
snd_seq_oss 31392 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7072 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 49616 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 7212 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 40576 0
snd_mixer_oss 16096 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_intel 16116 4
snd_hda_codec 164544 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm 71652 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 20068 4 snd_rtctimer,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 8712 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd 46692 16 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd _timer
soundcore 8096 1 snd


Your post indicates that snd_page_alloc is the only driver loaded.