alsa problems

[seth creature]

Hi all:  this seemed a good thread to jump onto, as I myself am now having
sound problems, but I know it's not alsa since I've not installed that yet.
I've just discovered that I seem to have sound card support, as my sound
card is turned on at bootup, and is detected as an analog devices ad1881.  I
know the sound card codac loaded, but when I tried to modprobe for the
snd-pcm-oss and so on, modprobe reports that it can't find that module.
I've used the oss support on my old sound blaster, and kernel 2.2.18 and all
went well, but having kernel 2.4.20 and a built-in sound card, don't know
what to do from here.  Any help would be most welcome, as I'm new to linux
in general, and know just about enough to be self destructive.  Thanks all
who are willing to help... cheereo!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Fisher" <toby at tjfisher.co.uk>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: alsa problems


> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Deedra Waters wrote:
>
> > I keep getting this problem with alsa on any version of alsa I compile
> >
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> > 00000000
> >
>
> Well, if it's with every version, it's unlikely to be an alsa problem.
>
> Have you:
>
> 1.  got the latest version of the alsa drivers, libraries and utils?
> 2.  Got the same versions of drivers, libs and utils, at least where
> possible?
> 3.  Configured your kernel with sound in, i.e. you said yes to sound, but
> no to *everything* else?
> 4.  Removed all the oss-based modules from your /lib/modules tree?
>
> All these could be causing your problem.
>
> Cheers.
>
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