[mythtv-users] ALSA sound, unresolved symbols

[ElectricianDrew at aol.com]

Hello,
I have finally got my new system put together for MythTV. It's a P4-1.8 GHz on an Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard. Video card is an NVIDIA GeForce3-Ti500 and tuner is an ATI TV Wonder VE. The hard drive, if it matters, is a Maxtor 160GB on a Promise PCI card.

I'm running Mandrake 9.1, kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk. My motherboard has onboard sound (includes 5.1 surround and digital out!) and it appears to use the ALSA intel8x0 driver.
I installed MythTV without too much trouble and did everything in the howto to get it set up.
I could watch TV but I didn't get any sound, even after checking the mixer and cabling. I knew the tuner was outputing sound after plugging speakers into the tuner's line out jack.  After a minute or two mythbackend runs out of audio buffers and crashes. I cannot use /dev/dsp in any application to play sound.

I looked around and most sites suggested upgrading to ALSA 0.9.4. So I downloaded and installed it as per the instructions. Compile supposedly completed successfully with the intel8x0 driver. But when I get to the part where I "modprobe snd-intel8x0;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss" I get the following messages:

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/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol snd_verbose_printk
modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed
modprobe: insmod snd-intel8x0 failed
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol snd_verbose_printk
modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed
modprobe: insmod snd-pcm-oss failed
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol snd_verbose_printk
modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed
modprobe: insmod snd-mixer-oss failed
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol snd_verbose_printk
modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed
modprobe: insmod snd-seq-oss failed
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Closer investigation of the compile messages reveal more "unresolved symbol" messages. I have looked through mailing lists, etc. and can't find a solution anywhere - at least, none that work / that I can understand.


If this is helpful, here's my lsmod:
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Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
isofs                  27988   1  (autoclean)
zlib_inflate           21156   0  (autoclean) [isofs]
nls_iso8859-1           3516   1  (autoclean)
udf                    90464   0  (autoclean)
parport_pc             25096   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8096   0  (autoclean)
parport                34176   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
nfsd                   74256   8  (autoclean)
af_packet              14952   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 16920   2  (autoclean)
floppy                 55132   0
eepro100               21844   1  (autoclean)
mii                     3832   0  (autoclean) [eepro100]
supermount             15296   1  (autoclean)
ide-cd                 33856   0
cdrom                  31648   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
bttv                   78496   0
videodev                7872   2  [bttv]
i2c-algo-bit            9064   1  [bttv]
i2c-core               21192   0  [bttv i2c-algo-bit]
soundcore               6276   0  [bttv]
ide-scsi               11280   1
usb-storage            72952   0  (unused)
scsi_mod              103284   2  [sr_mod ide-scsi usb-storage]
ehci-hcd               18568   0  (unused)
usb-uhci               24652   0  (unused)
usbcore                72992   1  [usb-storage ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
rtc                     8060   0  (autoclean)
ext3                   59916   2
jbd                    38972   2  [ext3]
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And my lspci:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB ICH4 IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti 500] (rev a3)
02:01.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02)
02:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
02:02.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
02:06.0 Unknown mass storage controller: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller (rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BD PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 82)
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Anyone know what I need to do to get this sound card working?


Thanks,
Drew Hearle