On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 08:19 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: [snip] > > Since there are now more reports than one let me add my 2 cents. I use > > slmodemd on top of the snd-atiixp-modem module to activate the softmodem > > on my laptop. On kernel 2.6.12-1.1447 it works fine using modem:1,0 as > > the device. On kernel 2.6.13-1.1526 it fails. I'm reporting it because > > the snd-atiixp-modem module is part of the Alsa sound libs. > > > did you recompile slmodemd on the new kernel? Yup and I also figured out that it was not caused by the kernel upgrade (doh!). It is caused by the /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf file. Here is the error message: ALSA lib conf.c:1578:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:51:23:No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:2823:(snd_config_hook_load) /etc/alsa/cards/aliases.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it ALSA lib conf.c:2686:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:1959:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Invalid type for PCM modem:1,0 definition (id: modem, value: cards.pcm.modem) error: alsa setup: cannot open playback device 'modem:1,0': Invalid argument error: cannot setup device `modem:1,0' Now if I can figure out what's wrong with the file I can fix it. No luck so far so the search continues. Regards, Patrick