[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: initial impressions.

[Simon Bridge]

The following arrived from linuxant support, concerning the modem:


> Hi,
> 
> the replacement HDA driver provided by the HSF driver can't be loaded
> in 
> your kernel. Since you have a HDA sound device, this situation also 
> affect the sound device.
> 
> The source of this problem is probably that the installed kernel
> headers 
> doesn't match the installed ALSA kernel modules. I can see that you
> have 
> new ALSA modules installed in 
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/updates/sound, this is the likely
> source 
> of the problem.

> 
> To solve this problem, please uninstall the HSF driver with the 'sudo 
> hsfconfig --uninstall' command. Then uninstall the source of the
> modules 
> in /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/updates/sound, it is possible that
> it 
> comes from the linux-backports-modules-generic package. After that, 
> reboot the system and try again to install the HSF driver.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Jonathan
> Technical specialist / Linuxant
> 

I read this to mean that my installation is too up to date for the
linuxant hda driver to work.

Surely if I remove the alsa libs as suggested, sound won't work?