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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:17:55 +0100 (CET)
From: Anders Semb Hermansen <ahermans@vf.telia.no>
To: David Houlden <dave@dhoulden.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: ALSA and kerneld 
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Hello David


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On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, David Houlden wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've just installed the alsa 0.3.0 pre3 drivers to use with my SB
> pci128 soundcard. The system is based on Slackware 3.5 with a 2.0.35
> kernel and modutils 2.1.85.
> 
> The driver works fine if started with modprobe snd-audiopci but I have
> one question. Why won't the driver modules load when required using
> kerneld? All other modules I have compiled are loaded and deleted by
> kerneld. For instance, if I use modprobe to load the module I can then
> use workbone to play an audio cd. If I run workbone without loading
> the module with modprobe it runs ok and reads the cd but I get no
> sound because kerneld has not loaded the module.
> 

Workbone is proably only sending a request to the cd-rom (something like:
"please play the cd"). The cd-rom starts playing and sends the audio to
the soundcard, but the kernel never gets notified that the soundcard is 
in use and dosen't load the driver for it. Try to use a program that uses
the soundcard "for real" like a wav or mp3 player.

I think autoloading of modules in alsa-lib only exisist in latest cvs.

> It might be my /etc/conf.modules so I've included that for any comments.
> 
> alias net-pf-4 off
> alias net-pf-5 off
> alias char-major-14 snd
> alias snd-minor-oss-0 snd-audiopci
> alias snd-minor-oss-3 snd-pcm1-oss
> alias snd-minor-oss-4 snd-pcm1-oss
> alias snd-minor-oss-5 snd-pcm1-oss
> alias snd-minor-oss-12 snd-pcm1-oss
> alias snd-card-0 snd-audiopci
> options snd snd_major=14 snd_cards_limit=1
> 

looks good to me.

> Many thanks,
> Dave.
> 
> 
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Hope it helps,

Anders


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