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  From: Tim Fairchild <amosf@mrbean.net.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 00:43:22 +1000

Re: ALSA sound drivers

On Thursday 04 January 2001 23:14, Sam Silvester wrote:

> > Hi list,
>
> I'm trying to set up my sound card, and I've got stuck trying to get the
> correct modules to automatically load on boot.
>
> If I do 'modprobe snd-intel8x0' with no other sound related modules
> loaded, everything works fine.
>
> On booting, all of the same modules are loaded, but I have no sound. The
> only difference I can spot in the output from lsmod is that some of the
> 'used by' details are different. See the attached files, 'soundworking'
> being the working config, 'soundbroken' being the broken one.
>
> I'm sure I need to change my /etc/modules.conf file somewhat, but I don't
> know what needs fixing!
>
> My modules.conf file looks like this (irrelevent material removed)
>
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
> post-install snd-intel8x0 modprobe snd-card-intel8x0
> post-install snd-card-intel8x0 modprobe snd-pcm-oss

I gotta admit that I don't understand this stuff. I recently installed mdk7.2 
on two machines. One had a FM801 which mdk found and configured lovely, the 
other install had a SB16 - but I changed the md to one that had an onboard 
via... No this is a supported chip, but there doesn't seem to be any config 
tool outside the install (that I could see) so it was a manual job... Which I 
evenually worked out with...

alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-via686a
post-install snd-card-via686a modprobe snd-pcm-oss  

Which is an easier setup than your's apparently... My question is why it has 
the 2 modules depending on each other like that... what happens if you put in 
something like:

> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-intel8x0
> post-install snd-card-intel8x0 modprobe snd-pcm-oss

Just curious :-)   Perhaps someone with knowlege out there can enlighten the 
blundering in the dark types like me :-)

tim

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