Re: 2.6, modules, and ALSA
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 11:08 pm, Peter Sebastian Masny wrote:
> Hi, I'm using kernel-image-2.6.2-1-k7.
> I have included "snd-via82xx" in my /etc/modules and run update-modules
> (modules-init-tools installed).
> Notice that sound is used by via82cxxx_audio (which is not mentioned in
> dmesg).
> to my understanding, via82cxxx_audio and ac97_codec are OSS, while
> snd_via82xx and snd_ac97_codec are ALSA.
Correct. The sound module is also part of OSS; the ALSA equivalent is snd.
> My question is, how do I force the kernel to use the ALSA drivers and
> not load the OSS ones?
It looks like your kernel image has support for both ALSA and OSS enabled,
and both are getting loaded somehow.
Make sure that sound, via82cxxx_audio, and ac97_codec aren't also
in /etc/modules, or in /etc/modprobe.conf or any file it includes.
Adam
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