Hi all. I'm having problems getting my sound card to work on my laptop. The machine is an ASUS L-8400, and I'm running Red Hat 8, Kernel version 2.4.18-19.8.0 (that's the redhat package designation). The sound card is an Aureal AU8810, which supposedly runs off the Maestro3 driver. I can't seem to get the driver to load. Here's a sample session:
Code:
[root@ika joe]# /sbin/modprobe maestro3
/lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/maestro3.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/maestro3.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/maestro3.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/maestro3.o: insmod maestro3 failed
root@ika joe]# /sbin/insmod maestro3
Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/maestro3.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-19.8.0/kernel/drivers/sound/maestro3.o: unresolved symbol ac97_probe_codec_R84601c2b
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Complicating matters is the fact that /dev/dsp is reputed not to exist. I say "reputed" because:
Code:
[root@ika joe]# ls -la /dev/ds*
crw------- 1 joe root 14, 3 Jan 15 14:23 /dev/dsp
crw------- 1 joe root 14, 19 Aug 30 19:31 /dev/dsp1
crw------- 1 joe root 55, 0 Aug 30 19:31 /dev/dsp56k
And yet:
Code:
[root@ika joe]# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
bash: /dev/dsp: No such device
I find all of this quite puzzling, not to mention frustrating. Anybody have any ideas?
Sound Card Problems
