[ale] Trouble with a sound card on Ubuntu 6.10.

[Jim]

Scott Castaline wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>   
>> I was never able to get sound or the printer working right on my wife's 
>> system with her old, tired system, so I gave her an ASUS, AMD box that 
>> I'd been running Debian on quite successfully.  I scrubbed a new disk 
>> and installed Ubuntu Edgy.  The sound doesn't work.  I went googling and 
>> found a suggested fix that included installing the via82cxxx_audio 
>> module.  I tried that and:
>>
>> root at sue-desktop:~# find /lib/modules/ -name via82cxxx_audio.ko | xargs 
>> ls -l
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29062 2006-12-05 17:47 
>> /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.ko
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29062 2007-02-01 15:11 
>> /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/kernel/sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.ko
>> root at sue-desktop:~# modprobe via82cxxx_audio
>> FATAL: Module via82cxxx_audio not found.
>> root at sue-desktop:~# uname -r
>> 2.6.17-11-generic
>>
>> I'm very confused.  Lsmod doesn't mention it, so it's not already 
>> installed. It's not in the /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386 file.
>>
>> So why doesn't modprobe (or insmod) find the module?
>>
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> Disregard my prior post, I was looking at the wrong thing. Try 744 
> (RWXR--R--).
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I don't think it matters.  All the other modules are 644.  I'm running 
as root.

Jim.