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

[Scott Castaline]

Jim wrote:
> I was never able to get sound or the printer working right on my wife's 
> system with her old, tired system, so I gave her an ASUS, AMD box that 
> I'd been running Debian on quite successfully.  I scrubbed a new disk 
> and installed Ubuntu Edgy.  The sound doesn't work.  I went googling and 
> found a suggested fix that included installing the via82cxxx_audio 
> module.  I tried that and:
> 
> 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?
> 
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I could be wrong but don't the permissions need to be 664 (rw-rw-r)?
That's how they are on mine FC6.