Re: discover or alsa?
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:14:24PM +0200, Free Ekanayaka said
> |--==> Wouter Verhelst writes:
>
> WV> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
> WV> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:51:46AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >>On Oct 13, Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >>> Lots of users are reporting that ALSA sound doesn't "just" work when
> >>> they install it. The cause of the problem is the fact that discover
> >>> loads OSS modules even when ALSA modules are available. This bug cannot
> >>> be worked around consistently with policy because discover offers no
> >>> mechanism for blacklisting modules other than editing a conffile. The
> >>> bug report against discover1 (#220616) has been tagged "wontfix" so I am
> >>> not expecting the discover maintainers to solve the problem.
> >>Discover should not try to load drivers for PCI devices AT ALL, we have
> >>hotplug for this.
>
> WV> The reverse could be (and has been, on multiple occasions) said about
> WV> hotplug.
>
> I thought hotplug was dealing with hot plugging devices (pcmcia, usb,
> etc.)
PCI (on special motherboards) is hotpluggable :-)
-rob
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