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Alsa and atiixp misconfigured NEC-LL9109 Laptop

gday

having some problems when configuring alsa on a new FTP arch installation.

---wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa%20setup

i have tried to follow all information given in the wiki forms as well linuxquestions.org, still cant seem to get this pup to fire.

here is all the info i have so far:

dmesg returns:
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ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ATIIXP: chipset revision 0
ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8070-0x8077, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8078-0x807f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio

lsmod returns(after running alsaconf):
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snd_pcm_oss 57384 0
snd_mixer_oss 20992 1 snd_pcm_oss
8139too 26624 0
eth1394 22280 0
8139cp 22400 0
mii 5888 2 8139too,8139cp
crc32 4864 2 8139too,8139cp
ohci1394 36484 0
ieee1394 113080 2 eth1394,ohci1394
joydev 10560 0
ohci_hcd 23172 0
pciehp 97668 0
pci_hotplug 13188 1 pciehp
evdev 10112 0
tsdev 7808 0
snd_atiixp 22952 0
snd_ac97_codec 71684 1 snd_atiixp
snd_pcm 104708 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_atiixp
snd_timer 28164 1 snd_pcm
snd 60260 6 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_co
dec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 11104 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 12168 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm

after invoking alsaconf
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finds and configures sound card (atiixp), get output

/usr/sbin/alsaconf: line 674: rcalsasound: command not found
Setting default volumes...

/etc/modprobe contains
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# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.6 ---
options snd device_mode=0666
alias snd-card-0 snd-atiixp
alias sound-slot-0 snd-atiixp
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

after invoking alsamixer
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alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

Also /dev/dsp doesnt exist and /dev/snd is empty

any help would be much appreciated

I tried taking a different approach to the problem and compiled the alsa libraries and drivers manually. im using the walk through on the alsa website for my soundcard

everything goes smoothly until i modprobe all the drivers :

Code:

[root@bottleOfRum alsa-utils-1.0.6]# modprobe snd-atiixp

[root@bottleOfRum alsa-utils-1.0.6]# modprobe snd-pcm-oss

[root@bottleOfRum alsa-utils-1.0.6]# modprobe snd-mixer-oss

[root@bottleOfRum alsa-utils-1.0.6]#  modprobe snd-seq-oss



WARNING: Error inserting snd_seq_device (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq-device.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

WARNING: Error inserting snd_seq (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

WARNING: Error inserting snd_seq_midi_event (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq-midi-event.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

FATAL: Error inserting snd_seq_oss (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1/kernel/sound/acore/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)



[root@bottleOfRum alsa-utils-1.0.6]# amixer/amixer 

amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device

does this help at all with the problem solving? am i missing a module in my kernel? it is a stock arch linux kernel... 2.8.1-3