sound problems with ATI sound card on HP Pavillion zx5000

hi

i thought i had got my sound system working on my laptop but a few problems have cropped up again.

i compiled soundcore module in kernel 2.6.11.10 and then downloaded alsa drivers from www.alsa-project.org. my soundcard is supported :

however an attempt to modprobe the modules (they did not get loaded one day from the modules.conf (yes, on debian i know that one needs to modify stuff insideetc-modutils and then run update-modules + alsoetc-modprobe.d -- quick question why would there be 2 config files for the same task - aint that confusing ??).

i recompiled alsa driver,libs and utils following instructions on that url above *to the letter*.

loaded modules before modprobe :

Module Size Used by ipv6 265088 10 pcmciacore 53024 0 iptstate 2944 33 iptREJECT 7936 4 iptlimit 3584 6 iptLOG 8448 6 ipconntrackftp 74384 0 ipconntrack 56520 2 iptstate,ipconntrackftp iptablefilter 4096 1 iptables 27648 5 iptstate,iptREJECT,iptlimit,iptLOG,iptablefilter ehcihcd 34440 0 ohcihcd 23304 0 8139too 27008 0 ohci1394 36740 0 reiserfs 251376 2 soundcore 11616 0 sndpagealloc 11140 0 genrtc 10908 0

modprobe fails again with this junk :

usr-src-alsa-utils-1.0.8# modprobe snd-atiixp;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss WARNING: Error inserting snd (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-snd.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting sndtimer (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-snd-timer.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting sndpcm (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-snd-pcm.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting sndac97codec (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-pci-ac97-snd-ac97-codec.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) bane: Error inserting sndatiixp (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-pci-snd-atiixp.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting snd (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-snd.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting sndmixeross (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-oss-snd-mixer-oss.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting sndtimer (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-snd-timer.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting sndpcm (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-snd-pcm.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) bane: Error inserting sndpcmoss (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-oss-snd-pcm-oss.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting snd (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-snd.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) bane: Error inserting sndmixeross (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-oss-snd-mixer-oss.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting snd (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-snd.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting sndseqdevice (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-seq-snd-seq-device.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting sndtimer (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-snd-timer.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting sndseq (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-seq-snd-seq.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting sndseqmidievent (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-seq-snd-seq-midi-event.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) bane: Error inserting sndseqoss (-lib-modules-2.6.11.10-kernel-sound-acore-seq-oss-snd-seq-oss.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

i have not changed my kernel config from the time sound was working. what happened ?

KC