Re: 2.6, modules, and ALSA

[Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu>]

Please send replies to the list and not to me directly. This allows other 
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that someone who has this problem in the future can find the solution.

On Tuesday 17 February 2004 11:44 pm, Peter Sebastian Masny wrote:
> Adam Aube wrote:
>> 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.

> They are not.  Here is the full /etc/modules (minus the comments)

>  b44
> mousedev
> hid
> uhci-hcd
> usb-storage
> snd-via82xx

> /etc/modprobe.conf says:
> include /lib/modules/modprobe.conf

> Here are the relevant (I think) parts of /lib/modules/modprobe.conf

> ### update-modules: start processing alsa ###
> ### DEBCONF MAGIC
> # This file was automatically generated by alsa-base's debconf stuff
>
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
>
> options snd major=116 cards_limit=4
>
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
> alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
>
> alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0
>
> ### update-modules: end processing alsa ###

The only difference between yours and mine is that I have this line:

alias /dev/dsp* snd-pcm-oss

What may be happening is a program on your system is trying to access 
a /dev/dsp* device, and this is loading the OSS modules instead of the 
ALSA OSS-compatibility module.

Try adding that line to /etc/modprobe.conf and see if that keeps the OSS 
modules from loading.

Adam