Re: Problem getting ALSA working on Dell Inspiron 4150

[Ralph Crongeyer <ralph@crongeyer.com>]

In discover.conf at "/etc/discover.conf" put this line at the end:
skip i810_audio
That will make discover not load the OSS module and so will load the alsa module. You'll have to adjust your volume.

Ralph

James Strandboge wrote:

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 00:26, Joe Emenaker wrote:
  

I solved the problem.

It seems that the i810_audio module (the OSS driver) was loading and 
*conflicting* with snd-intel8x0 (the ALSA driver). snd-intel8x0 would 
still load... but it just didn't find anything.

I was able to prevent i810_audio from loading by renaming the 
i810_audio.ko to i810_audio.ko.hidden in the appropriate /lib/modules 
directory, but I'd like to know of a better way of preventing it from 
loading. Mentioning the driver name in /etc/hotplug/blacklist didn't 
seem to do it.
    

I have the same problem.  Using the 2.4.26-1-386 kernel. 
/etc/hotplug/blacklist did not help (alsa already had this listed in
/etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/alsa-base)

Jamie