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Posted: April 01 2007,09:57

Hi Folks,

my system - dsl 3.2 frugal
my sound driver - sis ( i compiled this driver from source and it depends on ac97.o and ac97_code.o)

i am unable to load the sound driver in bootlocal.sh or .xinitrc
by calling a script. i get unresolved symbol errors.

if i run the script alone after bootup the driver sis.o does load
and i can play music.

but i get a warning as follows

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Warning: loading /home/dsl/sis.o will taint the kernel: no licence

see http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules

Modules sis loaded, with warnings

whats happening and how to over come this?

Thanks.

Juanito

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Posted: April 01 2007,10:14

I got a similar message to this when I compiled a driver without the version.h (or .version maybe) file being present.

If you have access to a Knoppix 3.4 CD you can boot from, it might be worth compiling the driver on that to see if the problem disappears.

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Posted: April 03 2007,14:02

Hi Juanito,

thanks for the advise but i am not enough of an expert to do that. i merely compiled the driver from sis*.c and sis*h files and was lucky enough to get the sis.o

can you just tell me how to work around my inabilty to run the script in .xinitrc. as i said the module loads when i manually run the script after bootup, and i just ignore the message. what's the difference between running it manually and running it in .xinitrc. is there any argument or something i can use with insmod?

secondly can i bother you to give me a compiled version of sis.o with the .h or .version thing that you told me about if i send you the source code?

Thanks.

Juanito

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Posted: April 03 2007,14:16

If you post the link to the site you downloaded the source binary from here, I'll give it a go if I can.

In the meantime, you could try "insmod -f sis" or "modprobe -f sis" to see if that helps.

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Posted: April 04 2007,02:06

Hi Juanito,

very kind of you. thanks. i will try your advise. at the same time let me send the source to your email address.
can i have it because the source was sent as a tar.gz to me by the pc manufacturer.

thanks.

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