Clarification of sarge release notes, section 5.2.3, "Sound configuration"

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>]

> 5.2.3 Sound configuration
> 
> For the 2.6 kernel series the ALSA sound drivers are preferred over
> the OSS sound drivers. If you install alsa-base, ALSA modules for your
> soundcard should be loaded automatically; this will also automatically
> blacklist OSS modules for discover and hotplug to prevent them from
> loading. If you have OSS modules listed in /etc/modules, you should
> remove them.


For the 2.6 kernel series the ALSA sound drivers are recommended over
the older OSS sound drivers.  ALSA sound drivers are furnished by
default as modules.  In order for sound to work, the ALSA modules
appropriate for your sound hardware need to be loaded.  In general this
will happen automatically if you have, in addition to the alsa-base
package, either the hotplug package or the discover package installed.
The alsa-base package also "blacklists" OSS modules so that hotplug and
discover won't load them.  If you have added the names of OSS modules
to /etc/modules then you must remove those names now.

-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>