[gentoo-user] alsa-driver: "Unknown symbol in module" error

My Dell Vostro 1320 doesn't mute the external speakers when headphones
are plugged in. These guys seem to have fixed the problem by
upgrading to the latest version of alsa-driver, alsa-lib, and
alsa-utils:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=27987&p=168950

I'm on the latest hardened-sources in the tree which is 2.6.29. I'm
thinking I need a newer version of the snd-hda-intel driver and I
don't want to switch kernels. I tried to switch to the latest
alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-utils, and alsa-headers, but I ended up
with a bunch of "Unknown symbol in module" errors. The error is
described here:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

but the 2 solutions (rm -rf /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/alsa-driver and
some device_mode stuff) don't work for me. Does anyone know how I can
fix this?

- Grant

On 10/09/2009 01:19 PM, Grant wrote:

> but the 2 solutions (rm -rf /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/alsa-driver and
> some device_mode stuff) don't work for me...

I'm just guessing here, but I'm thinking that deleting only the alsa
modules may not be good enough. I'd try deleting all of the modules
and recompile/reinstall them.