emu 1212m pci on ubuntu 7.10

[chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org]

Lennart Sorensen writes: 

> 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. 
> 
> 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)

I thought I'd finally try this: 

root at cpc:~# modprobe -f -r snd_emu10k1
FATAL: Module snd_emu10k1 is in use. 

I'm not running Audacity or alsamixer, so how is the soundcard "in use"? 

Chris 


> 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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> Len Sorensen
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