Arch Linux

Bon appetit folks!

Description:

I just updated my machine and received kernel26 2.6.30-5. After rebooting and firing up X (using startx from CLI) KDE (4.2.4) greeted me with a dialog window asking me if it should permanently forget about my nForce2 sound interfaces. The kernel module (snd-intel8x0) is listed as loaded according to lspci.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
- kernel26-2.6.30-5-i686
- alsa-lib-1.0.20-1-i686
- alsa-plugins-1.0.20-1
- alsa-utils-1.0.20-2-i686
- kdebase-4.2.4-1-i686
- kdelibs-4.2.4-2-i686
- kdemultimedia-4.2.4-1-i686

* config and/or log files etc.

Hardware:
- ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe mainboard w/ nVidia nForce2 sound engine (see also lspci output below)
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from /var/log/everything.log:

Jun 24 11:21:15 zalle kernel: cannot find the slot for index 1 (range 0-1), error: -16
Jun 24 11:21:15 zalle kernel: Intel ICH: probe of 0000:00:06.0 failed with error -16

Explanation for 'index 1': I ordered my sound devices such that snd_cs46xx (for my TerraTec DMX Xfire 1024) will get loaded first to make it the default sound device.
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relevant output from lspci:

00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio Processing Unit (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
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[root@zalle ~]# lsmod | grep -i snd
snd_seq_dummy 2696 0
snd_seq_oss 31168 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7012 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 53744 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 40352 0
snd_mixer_oss 17540 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_wavefront 37620 0
snd_cs46xx 84512 2
snd_cs4236 30964 0
snd_wss_lib 25892 2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_opl3_lib 10340 2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_hwdep 7624 2 snd_wavefront,snd_opl3_lib
snd_intel8x0 30592 0
snd_mpu401 7208 0
snd_mpu401_uart 7524 3 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236,snd_mpu401
snd_ac97_codec 106088 2 snd_cs46xx,snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1540 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_rawmidi 21824 3 snd_wavefront,snd_cs46xx,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 6768 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm 73768 6 snd_pcm_oss,snd_cs46xx,snd_cs4236,snd_wss_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 21068 4 snd_seq,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd 58404 22 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_wavefront,snd_cs46xx,snd_cs4236,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ac97_codec,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 6784 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 8844 4 snd_cs46xx,snd_wss_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 11280 5 snd_cs46xx,ns558,analog
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Steps to reproduce:

Obviously one needs the respective hardware to reproduce this behaviour.

I will gladly provide any additional input I can give that may help solve this issue. I am not very prone on using the outdated proprietary nforce2 driver.

Greetings

Sven