[alsa-devel] [Alsa-user] Problems with Soundblaster X-Fi

[WILMES Andreas]

Daniel Herrmann wrote:
> WILMES Andreas schrieb:
>> Daniel Herrmann wrote:
>>> WILMES Andreas schrieb:
>>>> Daniel Herrmann wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>
>>>>> i tried out the new devel-snapshot including alsa-support for my 
>>>>> Soundblaster x-Fi card.
>>>>>
>>>>> Installed it via ./configure; make; make install and rebooted.
>>>>>
>>>>> The driver didnt load at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Trying to load the driver manually brings up the following message:
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>> modprobe snd-ctxfi
>>>>>>       
>>>>> FATAL: Error inserting snd_ctxfi 
>>>>> (/lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/sound/pci/ctxfi/snd-ctxfi.ko): 
>>>>> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>> dmesg shows the following:
>>>>>>       
>>>>> [ 2146.563073] snd_ctxfi: disagrees about version of symbol 
>>>>> snd_ctl_add
>>>>> [ 2146.563081] snd_ctxfi: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
>>>>> [ 2146.563291] snd_ctxfi: disagrees about version of symbol 
>>>>> snd_pcm_new
>>>>> [ 2146.563295] snd_ctxfi: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_new
>>>>> [ 2146.563482] snd_ctxfi: disagrees about version of symbol 
>>>>> snd_card_register
>>>>>
>>>>> [...] and so on, about 60 lines
>>>>>
>>>>> [ 3198.031060] snd_ctxfi: disagrees about version of symbol 
>>>>> snd_pcm_period_elapsed
>>>>> [ 3198.031063] snd_ctxfi: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>> lspci | grep -i audio
>>>>>>       
>>>>> 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB X-Fi
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently using Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty with the current 
>>>>> 2.6.28-11-generic kernel
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe anyone has an idea, why i cant install the driver?
>>>>> It worked for me before, but unfortunatly i had to reinstall 
>>>>> ubuntu after getting a weird dependeny problem in apt.
>>>>> Not shure why it doesn't do so now...
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance for your help and thanks for the great work you do!
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>> I had the same error. Then I rebooted and the error disappeared. 
>>>> Hope that will help.
>>>>   
>>> Hm, i rebooted more than once - same error.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>> I deleted /usr/include/asm and I symlinked it to 
>> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11/include/asm-generic and I did a 
>> recompile. After rebooting then the error disappeared.
>>
> HM... You deleted it and made a symlink from it? How does this work? 
> How can i link something deleted?!
>
> Can't follow you ;)
Oh I'm Sorry.
/usr/include/asm was a static folder containing a lot of files before. I 
linked /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-11/include/asm-generic to 
/usr/include/asm then.