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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 16:56:22 -0500
From: "Mullen, Patrick" <Patrick.Mullen@GSC.GTE.Com>
Subject: tips & tricks
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Well, I finally got ALSA working again, and I want
to pass on what I have learned.  There is nothing very
profound I'm going to mention, but if it saves someone
else the frustrations I went through, this message
has served its purpose.

First of all, compile the kernel with kerneld support
so it autoloads modules when requested.  This takes
care of small stupid things that may get forgotten,
such as the snd-pcm1-oss modules.  This brings us
to note number 2.

Module snd-pcm1 as shown from lsmod does NOT equal
snd-pcm1-oss!  This is what took so long.  I couldn't
understand why /dev/dsp wasn't working when I saw the
pcm1 module loaded.  Turns out I was looking at the
wrong one.  Eh.

A large part of my problem was that I am a long time
user of ALSA (since 0.0.4, I think) and familiarity
made it hard to notice what had changed.  Go figure. ;-)

Anyway, keep up the good work!


~Patrick

