I have just done a clean install of Mandrake 10 because I brought a new hd and also the above sound card because the on board sound was crap (unsupported cmedia chipset) with winex and as the audigy is supported in alsa I thought it would work better.

I followed the instructions from the alsa site but when I get to the modprobe bits I get

modprobe snd-emu10k1;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss
WARNING: Error inserting snd-util-mem (/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/synth/snd-util-mem.ko.gz): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting snd-ac97-codec (/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.ko.gz): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
FATAL: Error inserting snd-emu10k1 (/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd-emu10k1.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)


dmesg shows this

snd-util-mem: Unknown symbol snd_kcalloc
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_info_register
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_info_register
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_add
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_info_free_entry
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_info_free_entry
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_find_id
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_find_id
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_new1
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_remove_id
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_remove_id
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_component_add
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_component_add
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_kcalloc
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_device_new
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_device_new
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_info_create_card_entry
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_info_create_card_entry
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_info_unregister
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_info_unregister
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_mixer
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_bus
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol __snd_util_mem_alloc
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_util_memhdr_new
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol __snd_util_mem_free
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_util_memhdr_free
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol __snd_util_memblk_new
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_write
snd-util-mem: Unknown symbol snd_kcalloc
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_info_register
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_info_register
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_add
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_info_free_entry
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_info_free_entry
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_find_id
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_find_id
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_new1
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_remove_id
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_remove_id
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_component_add
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_component_add
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_kcalloc
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_device_new
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_device_new
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_info_create_card_entry
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_info_create_card_entry
snd-ac97-codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_info_unregister
snd-ac97-codec: Unknown symbol snd_info_unregister
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_mixer
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_bus
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol __snd_util_mem_alloc
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_util_memhdr_new
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol __snd_util_mem_free
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_util_memhdr_free
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol __snd_util_memblk_new
snd-emu10k1: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_write


Don't know if all that is needed

lspci -v shows

00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 0008
Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
I/O ports at ec00 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

lsmod shows

Module Size Used by
snd-seq-oss 32192 0
snd-seq-midi-event 7200 1 snd-seq-oss
snd-seq 50480 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
snd-pcm-oss 49960 0
snd-mixer-oss 17152 1 snd-pcm-oss
ppp_deflate 6112 0
zlib_deflate 22904 1 ppp_deflate
zlib_inflate 22656 1 ppp_deflate
bsd_comp 5952 0
ppp_async 11744 1
ppp_generic 29552 7 ppp_deflate,bsd_comp,ppp_async
slhc 7200 1 ppp_generic
sg 38044 0
st 38616 0
sr_mod 17028 0
sd_mod 16832 0
scsi_mod 114648 4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod
nfsd 173152 8
exportfs 5920 1 nfsd
agpgart 31016 0
nvidia 4810156 12
md5 3872 1
ipv6 232352 8
snd-rawmidi 22304 0
snd-pcm 86212 1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-seq-device 8236 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi
snd-timer 22724 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
snd-page-alloc 8264 1 snd-pcm
snd-hwdep 8064 0
snd 52900 10 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-rawmidi,snd-pcm,snd-seq-device,snd-timer,snd-hwdep
soundcore 9248 1 snd
af_packet 20520 0
hid 53312 0
ide-floppy 18752 0
ide-tape 34864 0
ide-cd 40548 0
cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd
floppy 59444 0
bcm5700 110504 0
ohci1394 33956 0
ieee1394 287856 1 ohci1394
supermount 37876 1
ltserial 5316 3
ltmodem 556240 1 ltserial
ehci-hcd 24196 0
uhci-hcd 29104 0
usbcore 99132 5 hid,ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd
rtc 11576 0
ext3 110408 4
jbd 54328 1 ext3

btw uname -r is 2.6.3-7mdk

I used alsa driver ,lib, utils vers 1.08 and set it for emu10k1

The above lsmod seems weird to me as it shows snd modules but not the emu10k1 ones

Its like some other snd module is hijacking the kernel

Anyway if you made it to the end of this post any help will be appreciated

cheers

did you disable the onboard sound in the BIOS???

Thanks for the reply

Yes the onboard sound is disabled.

Any way have given up on ALSA it doesn't appear to support my sound card.

OSS does and it's now working under that though it does have a weird crackle.

Its just a pity as OSS has this time limit thing if Im reading right will mean I wlll have reload it in 3 months

Oh well better than no sound at all

Just got to get rid of the crackle in Diablo and I'll be happy. At least it doesn't have sound hesitations like the old sound now.