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Re: "EMU10K1/Audigy soundcard not found or device busy"



On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:19:16PM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote:
> As others have noted, your system is loading the OSS drivers, rather
> than the ALSA drivers.
> 
> What I suspect is happening (given that you're using a system based
> around the 2.4 kernel) is that you have the discover package installed.
> Discover is a program that does hardware detection and loads appropriate
> modules; unless told not to, it'll load OSS modules for your soundcard.
> Since it runs before the ALSA scripts do, the ALSA modules won't be
> able to load.
> 
> If this is what's going on, edit the file /etc/discover.conf to
> exclude the OSS modules (emu10k1 and ac97_codec).  Then the ALSA
> script should be able to load the ALSA modules OK.

Thanks, I edited my /etc/discover.conf and my /etc/hotplug/blacklist and
am set and ready to go!

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