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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
To: Paul Winkler <zarmzarm@erols.com>
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Subject: Re: ALSA & OSS-Linux on the same machine?
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Paul Winkler wrote:

> While I'm fussing around trying to get ALSA to work, I'd like to still
> be able to use OSS-Linux, which I already have working reasonably well.
> (Besides, ALSA doesn't have much midi support yet anyway!)  
> 
> But since I installed ALSA, even if ALSA isn't loaded, I can't start
> OSS. The usual routine is to run a shell script called 'soundon' as
> root. But now doing that gives this message:
> 
> [root@localhost utils]# soundon
> snd                7            0 (autoclean)
> vfat               4            1 (autoclean)
> fat                6    [vfat]  1 (autoclean)
> nls                1    [vfat fat]      0 (autoclean)
> Error: Sound driver appears to be already loaded or
> compiled in the kernel. Please unload the old driver
> or install a kernel without the built in sound driver.
> 
> What's peculiar is that the snd module IS NOT loaded prior to running
> soundon. If I do 'rmmod snd', 'lsmod' (just to check), and then
> 'soundon' again, the same thing happens.

You have probably line 'alias char-major-14 snd' here... Don't use it if
you want use commercial OSS driver. Correct line is 'alias
char-major-14 off'. As you said - OSS script checks if some driver is
present and if you have configured kerneld/kmod for auto-load of ALSA
driver, OSS soundon script loads by check if some driver is present ALSA
driver.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic


