Re: no kernel driver for sound card

[Seb <spluque@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:51:06 +1000,
Dean Hamstead <dean@fragfest.com.au> wrote:

> my snd-virtuoso stopped loading at boot recently.  i have concluded
> its something in userspace, as booting to older were-working kernels
> doesnt work either.

I had a hunch that upgrading to the 2.6.38 kernel broke this, so was
going to try downgrading the kernel, but sounds as if that won't help.


> i manually load snd-virtuoso the relogin to X and everything is
> fine. gnome doesnt seem to handle soundcards being added mid session,
> perhaps kde is the same?

Yep, this is exactly what I have to do in KDE as well, now that no ALSA
modules get loaded at boot time with 2.6.38 and this hardware.

Thanks,

-- 
Seb