[ATrpms-devel] Trying to get sound-in on the PCHD HD-5500

[phillong69 at netscape.net]

 From

http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Cx88_devices_(cx2388x)

and especially

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_TV_audio#CX88

(and the fact my lispci shows the audio device there)

with the references to the PCHD list, it seems that I should be able to 
get some audio in from the pcHDTV HD-5500

However,

sudo /sbin/modprobe cx88-alsa

returns

FATAL: Error inserting cx88_alsa 
(/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-alsa.ko): 
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

and dmesg reports

cx88_alsa: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_add
cx88_alsa: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add
cx88_alsa: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_new
cx88_alsa: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_new
cx88_alsa: disagrees about version of symbol snd_ctl_new1
cx88_alsa: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1
cx88_alsa: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
cx88_alsa: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl
cx88_alsa: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
cx88_alsa: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_ops
cx88_alsa: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer
cx88_alsa: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer
cx88_alsa: disagrees about version of symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed
cx88_alsa: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed

which I take to mean that the
alsa-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-1.0.14-60_rc4.fc6
package which does not have
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-alsa.ko
which rather belongs to
kernel-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6

the .src.rpm of  alsa-driver-1.0.14rc3 (and presumably 1.0.14 final 
which happened today) has
./alsa-kernel/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-alsa.c
which apparently does not get turned into a .ko packaged by 
alsa-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6-1.0.14-60_rc4.fc6

... so is a good solution to try to get alsa-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2948 to build 
and include the cx88-alsa module, or am I barking up the wrong tree?

[Context for this:  _somehow_  after not a little struggle I had audio 
capture into my  POS Creative Audigy SE / CA0106 working with my s-video 
capture (for the DirecTV feed) when I built my MythTV box.  I added 
(then removed) a USB microphone -- the wife wanted to do some Kareoke -- 
which worked out ok, but now I've lost audio capture on that thing, and 
can't seem to get it back.  The integrated ADI  and the P5B-deluxe with 
the ICH 8R/ADI AD1988B/intel-hda audio does not seem to have a 
functioning line in (even with trying various options here: 
http://alsa.opensrc.org/Hda, of which  
"6stack-digout" seemed most promising, so I'm trying to get the HD-5500 
to capture the audio.  [I'd prefer to have a free PCI slot for other 
things anyway; my plan B is to get a Chaintech  AV-710 with the Envy24 
chipset which is, apparently, actually well supported in linux/alsa]


PS - Thank you Axel for maintaining atrpms for so long.  Many years ago 
[before fedora ...] I maintained a much less ambitious effort and can 
only imagine how much work it must be to do this, but between you and 
Jarod my family and I have a wonderful media center that lets us choose 
what we want to watch/listen to and when on our own terms.