Ubuntu
linux-ports package

no sound modules

Bug #308058 reported by Anand Kumria on 2008-12-15

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux-ports (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

There are no sound modules in the linux-image-2.6.27-1-386.

Compare:

$ ls /lib/modules/2.6.27-1-386/kernel/sound/
ac97_bus.ko soundcore.ko

versus (linux-image-2.6.28-2-generic):

$ ls /lib/modules/2.6.28-2-generic/kernel/sound/
ac97_bus.ko core drivers i2c isa oss pci pcmcia soc soundcore.ko sound_firmware.ko synth usb

The specific reason I am using this kernel is to work around a bug in the 2.6.28 kernel / X (misdetecting who is programming the DRI/DRM stuff).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Debian 5.0
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-1-386 2.6.27-1.1 [modified: lib/modules/2.6.27-1-386/modules.pcimap lib/modules/2.6.27-1-386/modules.dep lib/modules/2.6.27-1-386/modules.ieee1394map lib/modules/2.6.27-1-386/modules.usbmap lib/modules/2.6.27-1-386/modules.isapnpmap lib/modules/2.6.27-1-386/modules.inputmap lib/modules/2.6.27-1-386/modules.seriomap lib/modules/2.6.27-1-386/modules.alias lib/modules/2.6.27-1-386/modules.symbols]
ProcEnviron:
PATH: custom, user
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: linux-ports
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-1-386 i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Debian package

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lp:ubuntu/karmic/linux-ports

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Anand Kumria (wildfire) wrote on 2008-12-15:

Dependencies.txt Edit (997 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Luke Yelavich (themuso) wrote on 2008-12-15: Re: [Bug 308058] Re: no sound modules

Does the hardware you are using explicitly need the 386 kernel? If not, I suggest you install the linux-generic package, which will pull in the generic kernel, which is known to have sound modules.

As for the 386 kernel, I'll look into that.

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Anand Kumria (wildfire) wrote on 2008-12-15:

Hi Luke,

No, it does not explicitly need the 386 kernel.

Unfortunately, due to bug 304871, I switched down to the 386 kernel.
Which resulted in no working sound.

Obviously I would like both -- I'm not fussy which kernel provides
that; I do know that kernel 2.6.27 provides working video, so I hope
that you just re-roll the .27 package with additional modules rather
than upgrading the version.

Thanks,
Anand

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Luke Yelavich
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Does the hardware you are using explicitly need the 386 kernel? If not,
> I suggest you install the linux-generic package, which will pull in the
> generic kernel, which is known to have sound modules.
>
> As for the 386 kernel, I'll look into that.
>
> --
> no sound modules
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308058
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
>

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Luke Yelavich (themuso) wrote on 2008-12-15:

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:25:56PM EST, Anand Kumria wrote:
> Hi Luke,
>
> No, it does not explicitly need the 386 kernel.
>
> Unfortunately, due to bug 304871, I switched down to the 386 kernel.
> Which resulted in no working sound.
>
> Obviously I would like both -- I'm not fussy which kernel provides
> that; I do know that kernel 2.6.27 provides working video, so I hope
> that you just re-roll the .27 package with additional modules rather
> than upgrading the version.

Unfortunately, the 386 kernel is produced by the linux-ports source package, as the Canonical kernel team do not consider it a kernel they shoudl continue to support, and have washed their hands of it. The ports tree in intrepid is currently 2.6.25.

It should be a matter of updating the configuration files and going from there, but I will have to look at this in my own time.

Thanks again for the report.

affects ubuntu/linux-ports
status triaged

Changed in linux-ports:
status:	New → Triaged

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Anand Kumria (wildfire) wrote on 2008-12-16:

config.diff Edit (5.7 KiB, text/x-patch; name=config.diff)

Hi Luke,

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Luke Yelavich
<email address hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:25:56PM EST, Anand Kumria wrote:
>> Hi Luke,
>>
>> No, it does not explicitly need the 386 kernel.
>>
>> Unfortunately, due to bug 304871, I switched down to the 386 kernel.
>> Which resulted in no working sound.
>>
>> Obviously I would like both -- I'm not fussy which kernel provides
>> that; I do know that kernel 2.6.27 provides working video, so I hope
>> that you just re-roll the .27 package with additional modules rather
>> than upgrading the version.
>
> Unfortunately, the 386 kernel is produced by the linux-ports source
> package, as the Canonical kernel team do not consider it a kernel they
> shoudl continue to support, and have washed their hands of it. The ports
> tree in intrepid is currently 2.6.25.

I'm using Jaunty, if it helps ...

> It should be a matter of updating the configuration files and going from
> there, but I will have to look at this in my own time.
>

I've re-built the package, and attached is my configuration diff.

Hope this helps.

Now I have both sound and video working fine on my setup.

Thanks,
Anand

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-02-11:

This bug was fixed in the package linux-ports - 2.6.28-1.1

---------------
linux-ports (2.6.28-1.1) jaunty; urgency=low

[ Luke Yelavich ]

  * SAUCE: Add rebase-ports and retag-ports scripts based on the scripts
    used for the lpia kernel
  * Remove build depends on gcc 4.1 for powerpc and ia64
    - LP: #297152
  * Enable CONFIG_PPC_PASEMI on powerpc64-smp
    - LP: #213668
  * Add the fec_mpc52xx network driver to the nic-modules udeb
    - LP: #201346
  * Changed default TCP congestion algorithm to 'cubic' on i386 and powerpc
    - LP: #278801
  * Enable ALSA subsystem and drivers for i386
    - LP: #308058
  * Turn off abi/module checks for hppa, ia64, and sparc
  * linux-headers packages should depend on, and be symlinked against
    linux-ports-headers
    - LP: #291487

-- Luke Yelavich <email address hidden> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:27:42 +1100

Changed in linux-ports:
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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Anand Kumria (wildfire) wrote on 2009-02-12:

thanks. Unfortunately not so useful at I was hoping this would be
fixed in 2.6.27 (and thus my X would become usable again).

2.6.28 has the Graphical Execution Manager (GEM) and portions of
Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) which cause problems with X, whereas 2.6.27
does not. Hence the query for sound modules (which was all that was
not working).

Cheers,
Anand

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Launchpad Bug Tracker
<email address hidden> wrote:
> This bug was fixed in the package linux-ports - 2.6.28-1.1
>
> ---------------
> linux-ports (2.6.28-1.1) jaunty; urgency=low
>
> [ Luke Yelavich ]
>
> * SAUCE: Add rebase-ports and retag-ports scripts based on the scripts
> used for the lpia kernel
> * Remove build depends on gcc 4.1 for powerpc and ia64
> - LP: #297152
> * Enable CONFIG_PPC_PASEMI on powerpc64-smp
> - LP: #213668
> * Add the fec_mpc52xx network driver to the nic-modules udeb
> - LP: #201346
> * Changed default TCP congestion algorithm to 'cubic' on i386 and powerpc
> - LP: #278801
> * Enable ALSA subsystem and drivers for i386
> - LP: #308058
> * Turn off abi/module checks for hppa, ia64, and sparc
> * linux-headers packages should depend on, and be symlinked against
> linux-ports-headers
> - LP: #291487
>
> -- Luke Yelavich <email address hidden> Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:27:42 +1100
>
> ** Changed in: linux-ports (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Fix Released
>
> --
> no sound modules
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308058
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
>