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Re: 2.6, modules, and ALSA



On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 23:22, Adam Aube wrote:
> 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
> 

I am also using the via modules, I only compiled in the ALSA into the
kernel and left all of the oss stuff out, and it works fine for me. 

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Gerard Ceraso
http://devslash.org

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