Alsa/sound not working on my laptop, wont recognise card

Found this post with a very similar problem, basically it says to cofigure the soundcard as a Crystal Audio CS4232. Worth a shot :)

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-laptops/28985-omnibook900-neomagic-nm2200-256av-alsa-problems.html

Hi Roald, thanks for the link, it might be down the right track......but it still hasnt gotten my sound working..
here's what i get when I run alsaconf and select the Legacy cards option:

modinfo: could not find module snd-opl3sa2
modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4236
modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4232
modinfo: could not find module snd-cs4231
modinfo: could not find module snd-es18xx
modinfo: could not find module snd-es1688
modinfo: could not find module snd-sb16
modinfo: could not find module snd-sb8

Actually.....Im very new to the terminal, but could this mean that if I just run

sudo modprobe snd-cs4236

then it might work? I shall try right now.
Nope no luck, i get the following message:

FATAL: Module snd_cs4232 not found.

Any ideas for this? thanks for the help

Timothy,

The modprobe should work, you mentioned snd-cs4236 in your post but I believe it should be snd-cs4232. Also, when doing the modprobe, make sure you type a dash (-) and not an underscore (_) as in the error message you post.

So, try typing the following:

sudo modprobe snd-cs4232

and see if that works. If not, in the terminal type the following:

cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`

(those are backward pointing single quotes, on my keyboard they're on the key just above the tab key)

then type

find . -name snd-cs*

and post the results here.

Hi, thanks a lot for your help!

Sorry I forgot to mention that I did type in snd-cs4232, but i also tried snd-cs4236 just in case, thats why I had that mix up, I just tried your instructions and here's what I got:

tim@ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe snd-cs4232
FATAL: Module snd_cs4232 not found.
tim@ubuntu:~$ cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`
tim@ubuntu:/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic$ find . -name snd-cs*
tim@ubuntu:/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic$

any ideas? I would like to know why I can't run alsamixer too...that's a bit strange isn't it?

thanks again, its great to get some help with this issue

cheers

That's strange indeed, it should have come back with a list of several sound drivers that get installed with the kernel. It is possible that trying to compile from source code removed the sound drivers, but for now I think the best thing to do is to reinstall the kernel to see if you can get the drivers back. In a terminal type:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-2.6.20-16-generic

I'm not 100% sure that's the correct package you have installed though, so maybe it's better to use adept manager, then search on linux-image and see which one is installed. From there, right-click the installed kernel image and select reinstall.

After the reinstall, please try the find command again to see if the modules are now listed.

Ok I reinstalled the kernel and this time when I ran alsaconf I got an extra option for NeoMagic MagicWave 3D Sound System (opl3sa2).
I have tried running alsaconf on all three options after reinstalling the kernel each time, but I get error messages when trying to run the modprobe command.

Here's what I got trying to install that Crystal Audio module
root@ubuntu:/home/tim# sudo modprobe snd-cs4232
WARNING: Error inserting snd_rawmidi (/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/sound/core/snd-rawmidi.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting snd_mpu401_uart (/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/sound/drivers/mpu401/snd-mpu401-uart.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting snd_cs4231_lib (/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4231-lib.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting snd_hwdep (/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/sound/core/snd-hwdep.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting snd_opl3_lib (/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/sound/drivers/opl3/snd-opl3-lib.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
FATAL: Error inserting snd_cs4232 (/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4232.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
root@ubuntu:/home/tim#

I get a similar thing this time when I try to modprobe the snd-nm256 and snd-opl3sa2. we're getting somewhere, I can feel it! :)

So close, but still no cigar!

Can you type 'dmesg' without the quotes in a terminal and paste the output here?

this is a big one:

tim@ubuntu:~$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.20-16-generic (root@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.20-16.32-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] sanitize start
[ 0.000000] sanitize end
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009f400 end: 000000000009f400 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009f400 size: 0000000000000c00 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000eb000 size: 0000000000015000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000000bef0000 end: 000000000bff0000 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000000bff0000 size: 000000000000fc00 end: 000000000bfffc00 type: 3
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000000bfffc00 size: 0000000000000400 end: 000000000c000000 type: 4
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fff80000 size: 0000000000080000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000eb000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000bff0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000bff0000 - 000000000bfffc00 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000bfffc00 - 000000000c000000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 191MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 49136) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 49136
[ 0.000000] HighMem 49136 -> 49136
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 49136
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 49136
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 351 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 44689 pages, LIFO batch:7
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.1 present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6b30
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0bffa2af
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FADT (v001 PTLTD FACP 0x06040000 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x0bffa2db
[ 0.000000] ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x0bfffbd9
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 PTLTD DSDT 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Vendor "PTLTD " System " DSDT " Revision 0x6040000 has a known ACPI BIOS problem.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Reason: Multiple problems. This is a non-recoverable error
[ 0.000000] ACPI: BIOS age (1999) fails cutoff (2000), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Disabling ACPI support
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 0c000000:f3f80000)
[ 0.000000] Detected 331.843 MHz processor.
[ 29.493208] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 48753
[ 29.493229] Kernel command line: root=UUID=41921255-d874-4909-b1f0-6b3b0a92aa91 ro quiet splash
[ 29.494391] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
[ 29.494446] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (0118a000)
[ 29.494465] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 29.494528] Initializing CPU#0
[ 29.494720] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
[ 29.496800] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 29.497990] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 29.498874] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 29.536385] Memory: 183864k/196544k available (1993k kernel code, 12196k reserved, 900k data, 328k init, 0k highmem)
[ 29.536450] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 29.536458] fixmap : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000 ( 708 kB)
[ 29.536467] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 29.536476] vmalloc : 0xcc800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 815 MB)
[ 29.536484] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xcbff0000 ( 191 MB)
[ 29.536493] .init : 0xc03d9000 - 0xc042b000 ( 328 kB)
[ 29.536501] .data : 0xc02f2429 - 0xc03d36d4 ( 900 kB)
[ 29.536510] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f2429 (1993 kB)
[ 29.536530] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 29.614697] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 664.65 BogoMIPS (lpj=1329317)
[ 29.614932] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 29.614967] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 29.615069] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 29.615733] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 29.615795] CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
[ 29.615812] CPU: L2 cache: 256K
[ 29.615828] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 29.615886] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[ 29.615925] Remapping vsyscall page to ffffe000
[ 29.615973] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 29.630850] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 29.631689] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[ 29.632669] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[ 31.432182] CPU0: Intel Mobile Pentium II stepping 0a
[ 31.432216] SMP motherboard not detected.
[ 31.432231] Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
[ 31.432464] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 31.433824] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 31.434121] Time: 8:57:32 Date: 09/19/107
[ 31.434346] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 31.434881] EISA bus registered
[ 31.451468] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9cf, last bus=3
[ 31.451484] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 31.451496] Setting up standard PCI resources
[ 31.466392] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[ 31.466416] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 31.466459] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 31.466480] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
[ 31.466587] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f6ab0
[ 31.466608] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x822c, dseg 0x400
[ 31.475230] PnPBIOS: 17 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 17 recorded by driver
[ 31.475517] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
[ 31.475543] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 31.476209] * Found PM-Timer Bug on the chipset. Due to workarounds for a bug,
[ 31.476221] * this clock source is slow. Consider trying other clock sources
[ 31.476311] PCI quirk: region 1000-103f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
[ 31.476329] PCI quirk: region 1040-104f claimed by PIIX4 SMB
[ 31.476895] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[ 31.480498] PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:07.0
[ 31.485769] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 31.485785] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 31.486161] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[ 31.486182] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x1000-0x103f has been reserved
[ 31.486200] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x1040-0x104f has been reserved
[ 31.488140] PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:01:00.0
[ 31.488157] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[ 31.488167] IO window: disabled.
[ 31.488186] MEM window: f4100000-f47fffff
[ 31.488204] PREFETCH window: f4800000-f5ffffff
[ 31.488223] PCI: Bus 2, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:08.0
[ 31.488237] IO window: 00001800-000018ff
[ 31.488253] IO window: 00001c00-00001cff
[ 31.488270] PREFETCH window: 10000000-13ffffff
[ 31.488288] MEM window: 14000000-17ffffff
[ 31.488303] PCI: Bus 6, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:08.1
[ 31.488316] IO window: 00002000-000020ff
[ 31.488332] IO window: 00002400-000024ff
[ 31.488349] PREFETCH window: 18000000-1bffffff
[ 31.488366] MEM window: 1c000000-1fffffff
[ 31.488426] PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
[ 31.488440] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:08.0
[ 31.488473] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:08.1
[ 31.488490] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:01:00.0
[ 31.488510] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.0 to 64
[ 31.488547] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:08.1
[ 31.488575] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:08.0
[ 31.488595] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:01:00.0
[ 31.488614] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.1 to 64
[ 31.488739] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 31.526641] IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 31.527067] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 31.527424] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 31.527631] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
[ 31.527647] TCP reno registered
[ 31.538894] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 34.997178] Freeing initrd memory: 6752k freed
[ 34.998231] Simple Boot Flag at 0x37 set to 0x1
[ 34.999201] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 34.999262] audit(1192784255.692:1): initialized
[ 34.999938] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 35.000042] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 35.000311] io scheduler noop registered
[ 35.000328] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 35.000342] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 35.000405] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 35.000443] Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
[ 35.001510] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 35.097680] isapnp: Card 'NeoMagic MagicWave 3D Sound System'
[ 35.097697] isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
[ 35.271781] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 35.272202] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 35.272576] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 35.276264] 00:0e: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 35.277911] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 35.281299] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 35.282275] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[ 35.282509] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 35.282534] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 35.283368] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 35.287313] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 35.287342] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 35.288049] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 35.288086] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[ 35.288103] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2
[ 35.288169] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 35.288615] TCP cubic registered
[ 35.288654] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 35.288767] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 35.288907] Magic number: 11:740:978
[ 35.288951] hash matches device ttyc5
[ 35.289337] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[ 35.291347] Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed
[ 35.310614] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[ 37.458095] Capability LSM initialized
[ 37.742150] thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit
[ 40.483789] PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
[ 40.483846] PIIX4: chipset revision 1
[ 40.483859] PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[ 40.483889] ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1050-0x1057, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[ 40.483935] ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1058-0x105f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
[ 40.483968] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[ 40.673489] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 40.673605] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 40.673739] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 40.682756] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 41.148146] hda: ST9120822A, ATA DISK drive
[ 41.820867] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[ 41.821105] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 41.989587] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 42.019668] FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
[ 42.555776] hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2202, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 43.227732] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[ 43.300431] PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
[ 43.300455] PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:07.2
[ 43.300505] PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:01:00.1
[ 43.300553] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 43.302188] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 43.302268] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 10, io base 0x00001060
[ 43.305203] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 43.306331] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 43.306397] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 43.314724] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 43.380946] libata version 2.20 loaded.
[ 43.549476] hda: max request size: 512KiB
[ 43.595949] hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33)
[ 43.602484] hda: cache flushes supported
[ 43.602690] hda: hda1 hda2 <<6>usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 43.651889] hda5 >
[ 43.706946] hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[ 43.706989] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 43.820680] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 43.822700] hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 2
[ 43.959732] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 43.961695] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 43.961721] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[ 44.145745] Attempting manual resume
[ 44.145766] swsusp: Resume From Partition 3:5
[ 44.145777] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[ 44.146194] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 44.271061] EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
[ 44.271084] EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
[ 47.032649] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 47.032730] EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
[ 47.034031] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 67.640746] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
[ 68.481777] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 68.531438] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:08.0 [0e11:b0c5]
[ 68.531484] Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
[ 68.531501] Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
[ 68.531514] Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
[ 68.531533] Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:08.0, mfunc 0x01001c00, devctl 0x46
[ 68.762017] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x08b0, PCI irq 9
[ 68.762036] Socket status: 30000006
[ 68.762672] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:08.1 [0e11:b0c5]
[ 68.762712] Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
[ 68.762725] Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
[ 68.762744] Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:08.1, mfunc 0x01001c00, devctl 0x46
[ 68.993947] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x08b0, PCI irq 9
[ 68.993967] Socket status: 30000020
[ 69.037559] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 69.629195] pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 1
[ 70.546446] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 71.117261] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 4.6, id: 0xf5ca1, caps: 0x80471b/0x0
[ 71.152386] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input2
[ 71.466714] agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
[ 71.474429] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
[ 73.357342] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3
[ 74.090863] input: Wacom Intuos3 6x8 as /class/input/input4
[ 74.094332] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
[ 74.094361] drivers/usb/input/wacom_sys.c: v1.46:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet driver
[ 74.144649] snd_rawmidi: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_file_add
[ 74.144677] snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_add
[ 74.148683] snd_rawmidi: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_file_remove
[ 74.148700] snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_remove
[ 74.149591] snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_register_device
[ 74.189750] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[ 74.189837] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[ 74.191353] snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_receive
[ 74.192074] snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_transmit_ack
[ 74.192809] snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_transmit_peek
[ 74.193249] snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_new
[ 74.193772] snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_set_ops
[ 75.299223] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
[ 75.301706] cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
[ 75.302814] cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
[ 75.303801] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
[ 75.305268] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
[ 75.308735] cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
[ 75.311203] cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
[ 75.410803] cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
[ 75.411824] cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
[ 75.415038] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
[ 75.566941] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 75.566967] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 75.567288] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_new
[ 75.567302] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_new
[ 75.567643] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all
[ 75.567660] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all
[ 75.568506] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_sync
[ 75.568523] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_sync
[ 75.569223] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 75.569237] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 75.569611] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages
[ 75.569626] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages
[ 75.569951] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[ 75.569966] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[ 75.570989] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
[ 75.571004] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
[ 75.571361] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[ 75.571376] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[ 75.572104] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[ 75.572121] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[ 75.572796] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[ 75.572811] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[ 75.573636] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[ 75.573651] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[ 75.591047] snd_hwdep: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_file_add
[ 75.591072] snd_hwdep: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_add
[ 75.594332] snd_hwdep: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_file_remove
[ 75.594348] snd_hwdep: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_remove
[ 75.594903] snd_hwdep: Unknown symbol snd_register_device
[ 75.600741] snd_opl3_lib: Unknown symbol snd_hwdep_new
[ 75.615401] snd_opl3sa2: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 75.615427] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 75.615862] snd_opl3sa2: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_register
[ 75.615878] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_card_register
[ 75.616228] snd_opl3sa2: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_free
[ 75.616242] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_card_free
[ 75.617016] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_opl3_create
[ 75.617561] snd_opl3sa2: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 75.617575] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 75.618221] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_cs4231_create
[ 75.618696] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_opl3_interrupt
[ 75.619046] snd_opl3sa2: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_new
[ 75.619060] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_card_new
[ 75.621563] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_mpu401_uart_interrupt
[ 75.622529] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_cs4231_pcm
[ 75.622954] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_cs4231_interrupt
[ 75.623553] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_mpu401_uart_new
[ 75.624034] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_opl3_hwdep_new
[ 75.624960] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_cs4231_timer
[ 75.625384] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_opl3_timer_new
[ 75.625809] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_cs4231_mixer
[ 75.631174] snd_rawmidi: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_file_add
[ 75.631198] snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_add
[ 75.635507] snd_rawmidi: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_file_remove
[ 75.635524] snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_remove
[ 75.636497] snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_register_device
[ 75.652648] snd_seq_midi: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_info_select
[ 75.654542] snd_seq_midi: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_output_params
[ 75.655692] snd_seq_midi: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_kernel_read
[ 75.656458] snd_seq_midi: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_kernel_write
[ 75.657264] snd_seq_midi: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_drain_output
[ 75.658684] snd_seq_midi: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_input_params
[ 75.659522] snd_seq_midi: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_kernel_open
[ 75.660318] snd_seq_midi: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_kernel_release
[ 75.708810] Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.14 (December 15, 2004)
[ 75.709060] PCI: Enabling device 0000:06:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
[ 75.709150] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:06:00.0 to 64
[ 75.710010] tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7869 advertising 05e1.
[ 75.719396] eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at Port 0x2000, 00:12:0E:20:2B:AD, IRQ 9.
[ 76.202727] snd_rawmidi: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_file_add
[ 76.202754] snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_add
[ 76.207054] snd_rawmidi: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_file_remove
[ 76.207071] snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_remove
[ 76.208034] snd_rawmidi: Unknown symbol snd_register_device
[ 76.211870] snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_receive
[ 76.212579] snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_transmit_ack
[ 76.213355] snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_transmit_peek
[ 76.213827] snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_new
[ 76.214381] snd_mpu401_uart: Unknown symbol snd_rawmidi_set_ops
[ 76.219732] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 76.219757] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 76.220080] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_new
[ 76.220095] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_new
[ 76.220436] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all
[ 76.220453] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all
[ 76.221209] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_sync
[ 76.221224] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_sync
[ 76.221923] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 76.221937] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 76.222312] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages
[ 76.222327] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages
[ 76.222653] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[ 76.222667] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[ 76.223710] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
[ 76.223727] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages
[ 76.224086] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[ 76.224100] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[ 76.224808] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[ 76.224824] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[ 76.225500] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[ 76.225514] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[ 76.226339] snd_cs4231_lib: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[ 76.226354] snd_cs4231_lib: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[ 76.232604] snd_hwdep: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_file_add
[ 76.232628] snd_hwdep: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_add
[ 76.235902] snd_hwdep: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_file_remove
[ 76.235920] snd_hwdep: Unknown symbol snd_card_file_remove
[ 76.236462] snd_hwdep: Unknown symbol snd_register_device
[ 76.240943] snd_opl3_lib: Unknown symbol snd_hwdep_new
[ 76.246343] snd_opl3sa2: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 76.246369] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 76.246752] snd_opl3sa2: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_register
[ 76.246767] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_card_register
[ 76.247115] snd_opl3sa2: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_free
[ 76.247129] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_card_free
[ 76.247948] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_opl3_create
[ 76.248503] snd_opl3sa2: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 76.248517] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 76.249165] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_cs4231_create
[ 76.249640] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_opl3_interrupt
[ 76.249990] snd_opl3sa2: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_new
[ 76.250004] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_card_new
[ 76.252399] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_mpu401_uart_interrupt
[ 76.253366] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_cs4231_pcm
[ 76.253792] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_cs4231_interrupt
[ 76.254391] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_mpu401_uart_new
[ 76.254845] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_opl3_hwdep_new
[ 76.255788] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_cs4231_timer
[ 76.256216] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_opl3_timer_new
[ 76.256643] snd_opl3sa2: Unknown symbol snd_cs4231_mixer
[ 76.321206] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 76.321235] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 76.322866] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_find_id
[ 76.322881] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_find_id
[ 76.323235] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 76.323249] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 76.324097] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_component_add
[ 76.324113] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_component_add
[ 76.324441] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_rule_add
[ 76.324456] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_rule_add
[ 76.348681] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_resume
[ 76.349018] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_new
[ 76.349033] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_new
[ 76.349417] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_register
[ 76.349431] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_card_register
[ 76.349779] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_free
[ 76.349793] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_card_free
[ 76.350465] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_mixer
[ 76.351073] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_bus
[ 76.351407] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_sync
[ 76.351421] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_sync
[ 76.352105] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_new
[ 76.352120] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_card_new
[ 76.352546] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_suspend
[ 76.352910] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[ 76.352924] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[ 76.353631] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[ 76.353645] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[ 76.354068] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[ 76.354084] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[ 76.355074] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[ 76.355088] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[ 76.355432] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_disconnect
[ 76.355446] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_card_disconnect
[ 76.355982] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_mmap_iomem
[ 76.355999] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_mmap_iomem
[ 76.356527] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[ 76.356542] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[ 77.650709] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 77.732242] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 77.732274] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
[ 77.733906] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_find_id
[ 77.733921] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_find_id
[ 77.734275] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 77.734289] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
[ 77.735098] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_component_add
[ 77.735113] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_component_add
[ 77.735460] snd_ac97_codec: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_rule_add
[ 77.735476] snd_ac97_codec: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_rule_add
[ 77.742438] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_resume
[ 77.742780] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_new
[ 77.742795] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_new
[ 77.743230] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_register
[ 77.743246] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_card_register
[ 77.743599] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_free
[ 77.743613] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_card_free
[ 77.744297] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_mixer
[ 77.744903] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_bus
[ 77.745238] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_sync
[ 77.745252] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_sync
[ 77.745915] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_new
[ 77.745929] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_card_new
[ 77.746351] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_ac97_suspend
[ 77.746717] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[ 77.746731] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
[ 77.747463] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[ 77.747478] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
[ 77.747903] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[ 77.747918] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list
[ 77.748909] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[ 77.748923] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all
[ 77.749268] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_card_disconnect
[ 77.749283] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_card_disconnect
[ 77.749770] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_mmap_iomem
[ 77.749784] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_mmap_iomem
[ 77.750311] snd_nm256: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[ 77.750326] snd_nm256: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
[ 77.901350] Adding 554200k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/9f31c32e-2f5c-4dde-afa5-bda986ae0b53. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:554200k
[ 78.273677] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
[ 78.578605] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 80.188903] 0000:06:00.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed (CSR5 0xfc664010 CSR6 0xff972113)
[ 80.188940] eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 41e1.
[ 80.581639] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 80.582106] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 81.499787] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_notify_smm
[ 81.500244] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_unregister_performance
[ 81.501535] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_preregister_performance
[ 81.502140] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_register_performance
[ 90.530140] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 91.223927] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 94.872378] Compaq 12XL125 machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
[ 94.872473] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[ 96.536117] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 97.427428] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
[ 97.586762] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1535 buckets, 12280 max)
[ 139.194960] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 139.360715] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
tim@ubuntu:~$

Tim,

I would suggest uninstalling the alsa source package, then re-installing all the installed alsa packages ( so no sources.... no need for em I think). The sources and trying to compile them may have screwed up things a bit, reinstalling alsa should recover from that.

Let me know how you get on.

Hi Roald,

I've just uninstalled the alsa source package, and reinstalled the newest version of the alsa packages. But when trying to do modprobe I still get the unknown symbol error message:

root@ubuntu:/home/tim# modprobe snd-nm256
FATAL: Error inserting snd_nm256 (/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/sound/pci/nm256/snd-nm256.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

I just don't know why it seems to know what card I have, but can't get it working.
Thanks a lot for helping, I'm starting to wonder if it will ever work..

Woohoo! I just restarted and now its working!!! Thanks so much for your help, you're the best! I just hope that it loads every time now. Thanks again! :D