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

[Jim]

Brian Pitts wrote:
> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Strange. It works for me.
>
> brian at square:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.17-11-generi
> brian at square:~$ find /lib/modules/ -name via82cxxx_audio.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/kernel/sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.ko
> brian at square:~$ sudo modprobe -v via82cxxx_audio
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/kernel/sound/oss/ac97_codec.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/kernel/sound/oss/sound.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/kernel/sound/oss/uart401.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/kernel/sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.ko
>
> Maybe you should try running depmod and then strace modprobe to see what 
> it's checking?
>   
Depmod was the key.  Funny I'd have thought something along the line 
would have to have run depmod for any of the modules to work.  Modules 
are still mostly magic to me.

Jim.