[ale] ThinkPad sound working

[Bob Toxen]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 06:58:50AM -0400, Michael Trausch wrote:
> On 8/13/05, Bob Toxen <bob at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
> >
> > My IBM ThinkPad R31 laptop sound working this evening.
> > 
> > The suggestion to load the i810_audio module failed because it failed
> > with an undefined symbol.  I grep'ed for the variable's name in other
> > source files in the same directory and found it defined in ac97_codec.c.
> > 
> > I then loaded this module before the i810_audio module and there, in
> > the Caribou Coffee Shop, I had sound!
> > 

> I just try to make sure that I have the module dependancies updated,
> and then use 'modprobe' to load my modules; I've never had a problem
> with that under Slack.  That way, if I know that I need a module
> loaded (say, i810_audio) I just say 'modprobe i810_audio' and it loads
> anything that it depends on.
Clearly, moddep failed to do its job.

>   - Mike
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