Re: nforce kernel modules
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:22:28AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>
> I went back and looked at the init script. It seems like the script
> relies on a successful modprobe of the various modules to actually
> complete correctly. (I'm not an expert on shell scripts, so I could
> be wrong). It occurred to me that maybe having chosen the sound
> support as all y's (instead of m's) was causing a problem. So, I
> recompiled the kernel with all sound support in modules, and
> everything works ok now. My mixer settings persist from one startup
> to the next.
>
> I also had to edit /etc/defaults/alsa to have it load the OSS
> emulation by defualt to get rid of the error from Audacity on the
> nForce2 machine. But the ALSA driver itself (i8x0) works great now.
Very good to hear. Glad things are working correctly now. You might
want to file a minor bug on the alsa package concerning the init
script's reliance on modprobing. I believe there are other ways that
could be checked that would work for both module and monolithic kernels.
--
Jamin W. Collins
This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots
of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar
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