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Re: ALSA --> Problem solved by "rm /etc/modprobe.conf"



Hi, (To be sue, I CCed you all too.)

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:01:15AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> Rod MacPherson wrote:
> >I've seen a number of people complaining about also not loading
> >properly recently.
> >
> >I too had that problem. OSS worked, but ALSA didn't.
> >
> >After much searching and experimentation here is the solution:
> >
> >ALSA will not load if OSS is alrady loaded.
> >
> >If you are using a stock 2.6 kernel OSS and ALSA are both enabled,
> >and OSS will try to load first.

Well but this just avoided the issue. I was scratching my head few days
ago too :-)  My short story:

 * 2.6 upgrade, sound was OK with OSS
 * udev and ALSA upgrade --> no /dev/dsp i.e. no sound

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  udev           0.031-2        /dev/ management daemon
ii  kernel-image-2 2.6.8-2        Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on PPro/C
ii  kernel-image-2 2.6.8-2        Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro
ii  alsa-base      1.0.5a-3       ALSA sound driver common files
ii  alsa-utils     1.0.5-3        Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (utilities

My solution:
* remove /etc/modprobe.conf which was empty file

Reason: As mentioned in MODPROBE.CONF(5)

    NOTE:  If the file /etc/modprobe.conf exists, all contents of /etc/mod-
    probe.d/ are ignored by default. It is up to the  system  administrator
    to  keep them in sync, either using a tool to concenate files /etc/mod-
    probe.d/ and write /etc/modprobe.conf or using  include  statements  to
    share the configuration data (see below).

Somehow I had empty /etc/modprobe.conf which prevented hotplug/udev to
read files in /etc/modprobe.d/ .  See http://bugs.debian.org/271763

So now I have my system back :-)

Osamu

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