Re: Problem getting ALSA working on Dell Inspiron 4150
On August 31, 2004 11:56 am, Juraj Ziegler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:58:39AM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > On August 31, 2004 06:17 am, Juraj Ziegler wrote:
> > > On a 2.6.x kernel, I would rather give up modprobe.conf and just run
> > > the hotplug daemon. Works fine for all PCI, USB and PCCard/PCMCIA
> > > devices. At least on all my machines :).
> >
> > Can you give a bit more detail? I'm not sure how one would go about
> > eliminating modprobe.conf - so many things seem to use it. Particularly
> > alsaconf (alsa-utils). Do you not even need alsaconf? To actually
>
> I was talking (ehm, writing :) about modprobe.conf, not about the
> module-init-tools themselves. You still need module-init-tools to insert
> the required driver modules into the kernel. What hotplug does, it scans
Right - I'd thought about that. What I'm really wondering is whether my
problem is strictly alsaconf related.
> So in short, if you run hotplug, it should automagically load the modules
> required for your system.
I think I'm going to try removing _both_ discover and alsa-utils, then. I
still think Discover finds stuff that hotplug doesn't, but it's worth seeing
if I get sound without them. Definitely discover and hotplug are duplicating
some things.
--
derek
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