[64studio-devel] laptop success, also Re: 2.6.18-3 + rt7 is OUT for testing

[Ben Loftis]

Hi guys.  I found a laptop that would suit my needs.  I got an Acer 5102 
WLMi with a dual-core AMD Turion TL50.  About $800US at Circuit City.

Graphics and (wired) networking work great with 64Studio 0.9.5  
Unfortunately the soundcard (hda_intel) has some problems ... it works 
but shortly after being opened, it locks the machine and I have to power 
cycle it.  Another person has the same problem, viewable here:  
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20061020.135317.1bc196eb.en.html

I've got a Tascam US122 USB device which works great.



Free, I installed the new kernel just to see if it might fix my lockup 
issues with the soundcard.  After doing this, the basic alsa modules 
won't load.  I've downloaded and installed the newest ALSA, but still no 
progress.  At bootup, or when running alsaconf, I get an "Invalid module 
format" error.

lsmod says soundcore is loaded, but I can't load any more ALSA modules.  
For example:

ben at 64studio:~$ sudo modprobe snd
FATAL: Error inserting snd 
(/lib/modules/2.6.18-1-multimedia-amd64/updates/alsa/acore/snd.ko) : 
Invalid module format

This is bad because I no longer have _any_ ALSA support so I can't use 
the Tascam box or the internal sound card.

Any ideas what I've done wrong?

-Ben Loftis