emu 1212m pci on ubuntu 7.10

[Christopher Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:29:31PM -0500, Christopher Aitken wrote:
>   
>> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>
>>
>>     
>>> I just checked the archive, they moved it.  Change multiverse to main in
>>> sources.list for the line, then it should find it.
>>>  
>>>       
>> Okay, I changed that, then I ran sudo apt-get update, then installed 
>> alsa-firmware. I also tried to install alsa-base, alsa-source, 
>> alsa-tools, and alsa-utils, but some of them were already there in their 
>> newest version. Between each install I would run alsamixer to see if the 
>> card was detected - it was not. Is there any command I have to run to 
>> restart any service?
>>     
>
> Might have to unload and reload the module for the card, since I suspect
> that is when the firmware is loaded.
>
> The simple solution would be to just reboot of course but you don't have
> to.
>   
Actually, I did. I didn't want to mention it because I was afraid it 
would sound to Microsoftish.

After I rebooted I ran alsamixer - the old card is still the only one 
listed. Maybe it sees the card but I just don't know how to get 
alsamixer to show it.

Chris
> If you find the module name
> lsmod |grep emu (I think the driver is emu something)
>
> then do
> modprobe -r snd-emu... (whatever you found)
>
> then
> udevtrigger
> to reload drivers for any present hardware not already handled.
>
> Hopefully the driver will find the firmware and load it automatically
> this time.  Certainly the ivtv drivers I have that use firmware files
> behave that way.
>
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