How to get the ALSA driver to start at boot?
I managed to get my sound setup to the point where I can get sound
by running 'modprobe snd-via8233' and some commands for unmuting the
appropriate channels. However, I would prefer the driver being loaded by
the ALSA entry in /etc/init.d, since the alsa config files seem to load
the driver with a bunch of options and perhaps I need them later
[also, simply throwing the driver in /etc/modules seems like an ad-hoc
solution, something I don't like by principle].
Now it says in the 'INSTALL' doc (that comes with alsa-drivers) that one
has to add some aliases to /etc/modules.conf. I think (I'm not very good
at reading bash-scripts yet) that /etc/init.d/alsa also looks for a
'snd-card-0' alias, created in /etc/modules.conf (one of the requested
aliases) and despite adding the requested lines to modules.conf, those
lines have dissapeared from modules.conf again [which, I gather from the
remarks in modules.conf, was to be expected]. Consequently, alsa fails
at boottime.
BTW, I couldn't use alsaconf, because that doesn't support my driver yet.
P.S. I think a correct setup also unmutes the mixer automagically, but
assuming I can't get it to work other than using the ad-hoc solution: in
what file should I put the commands that unmute the mixers?
sincerely
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Ivo Wever
I.J.W.Wever@student.tnw.tudelft.nl
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