On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 03:41, Hong Jiang wrote: > Hi, all, > > I upgraded the kernel from 2.4.25 to 2.6.5 today, by "apt-get install > kernel-source-2.6.5" and building it afterward. After reboot Arts said > > Sound server informational message: > Error while initializing the sound driver: > SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT failed - Invalid argument > The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
Well it is no wonder. You still have the dmasound* oss stuff loaded and thus the device is busy and alsa cannot take over. Simply disable dmasound in the kernel config or rmmod all the dmasound* i2c_keywest modules before trying to load the alsa ones. > i2c_keywest 12164 0 > dmasound_pmac 95972 0 > dmasound_core 23408 1 dmasound_pmac > i2c_core 28036 2 i2c_keywest,dmasound_pmac ^^^ follow the silent cry rmmod me Soeren
