[linux-audio-user] Now, no sound at all.

[Joseph Zitt]

In seeing if I could dub through the UA-30, I discovered that the device 
itself is apparently broken. Playing a tape through its LINE IN inputs, 
I only got one channel. Carefully testing things on the tape deck, 
cabling, and UA-30, I determined that nothing is coming in via the right 
channel input of the UA-30.

This appears to make all other questions about using it moot.

So I pulled the UA-30, and tried to play another MP3 through XMMS. It 
told me that it couldn't, and suggested that there was no soundcard 
configured. I rebooted, and things got worse, with no sound at all 
happening through anything.

I have the following in /var/log/messages:


Jun 25 17:55:16 localhost modprobe: 
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/aco
re/snd.o:
Jun 25 17:55:16 localhost modprobe: unresolved symbol snd_verbose_printk
Jun 25 17:55:16 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk
/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed
Jun 25 17:55:16 localhost modprobe: modprobe: insmod snd-ens1371 failed


I tried several things that the Troubleshooting window in draksound 
suggested:

[root at localhost jzitt]# lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO
es1371          : Ensoniq|CT5880 [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1274 
device:5880 subv:1458 subd:a000)
[root at localhost jzitt]# grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ens1371
[root at localhost jzitt]# /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
sr_mod                 16920   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ide-cd                 33856   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  31648   0  (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
parport_pc             25096   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8096   0  (autoclean)
parport                34176   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
nfsd                   74256   8  (autoclean)
ppp_async               9216   0  (unused)
ppp_generic            24060   0  [ppp_async]
slhc                    6564   0  [ppp_generic]
af_packet              14952   0  (autoclean)
floppy                 55132   0
tulip                  44032   0  (autoclean) (unused)
supermount             15296   3  (autoclean)
usb-storage            72952   0  (unused)
scsi_mod              103284   1  [sr_mod usb-storage]
usb-uhci               24652   0  (unused)
usbcore                72992   1  [usb-storage usb-uhci]
rtc                     8060   0  (autoclean)
ext3                   59916   3
jbd                    38972   3  [ext3]
[root at localhost jzitt]# modprobe snd-ens1371
/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol 
snd_verbose_printk
modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed
modprobe: insmod snd-ens1371 failed
[root at localhost jzitt]# /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp
/dev/dsp: No such file or directory
[root at localhost jzitt]# /sbin/chkconfig --list sound
sound           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
[root at localhost jzitt]# /sbin/chkconfig --list alsa
alsa            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
[root at localhost jzitt]# aumix -q
aumix:  error opening mixer
[root at localhost jzitt]#

Do any of these suggest anything that I should be doing? Have I 
completely destroyed all possibility of doing sound on my system, or 
does it only look that way? *sigh* After years -- literally -- of trying 
to get this stuff to work, it's still completely unintelligible to me.