[PLUG] Regaining Lost Sound

[Ali Corbin]

On 3/1/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    My reboot yesterday lost sound capabilities. While I wait for a reply to
> my post to the alsa mail list, I hope someone here can explain why I cannot
> load the snd_intel8x0.ko module.
>
> [root at salmo /lib/modules/2.6.19.2/kernel/sound/pci]# modprobe
> ./snd-intel8x0.ko
> FATAL: Module ./snd_intel8x0.ko not found.
>
>    This module was built with the kernel, and I'm telling modprobe just where
> it is, so why cannot modprobe find it?
>

I think that you just give the name of the module to modprobe, and it
looks for it in
/lib/modules/loaded-kernel/.

Did you perhaps boot into a new kernel, for which the snd module has
not been built?

Or if it is in the tree, try modprobing it again, leaving off the './'.

Ali