Hi
I have spent hours and hours trying to get my sound (AC97 VIA8233) to work.

I have downloaded the stuff from the ALSA site but at the very first stage where it says make install

[ Now unzip and install the alsa-driver package



bunzip2 alsa-driver-xxx
tar -xf alsa-driver-xxx
cd alsa-driver-xxx
./configure --with-cards=via82xx --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install
]

I get the following error


make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/shelton/packages/alsa-driver-1.0.6rc2/usb' /sbin/depmod -a 2.4.8-26mdk depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-pcm-oss.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/acore/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq-device.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq-midi-event.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq-midi.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/acore/seq/snd-seq.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd-pcm.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd-rawmidi.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd-timer.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/drivers/mpu401/snd-mpu401-uart.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via82xx.o


Please help me - I am running Mandrake 8.0 with Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk.. I have a A7V8x mobo ASUS

I really dont want to go back to M$.

BTW lspci -v reports this:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3205
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80f9
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.5
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b198 (prog-if 00 [Nor
mal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-e7ffffff
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 80) (prog-if 0
0 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80ed
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 80) (prog-if 0
0 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80ed
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 80) (prog-if 0
0 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80ed
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3104 (rev 82) (pr
og-if 20)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80ed
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3177
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80f9
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) (pr
og-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80ed
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at dc00 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3059
(rev 50)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80b0
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 12
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3065 (rev 74
)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80ff
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
Memory at e8001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0202 (rev
a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 2863
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

Regards
Shelton.

This problem is way over my head.
I suggest, if you haven't yet, to
join the ALSA mailing list and ask
those folks. There are some true
ALSA geeks in that group.

http://www.alsa-project.org/

Sheng-Chieh