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cmay4
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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2002 12:56 am    Post subject: ALSA and snd-pcm-oss / snd-mixer-oss Reply with quote

I am having some problems getting ALSA installed correctly. I followed the desktop guide, which I know is somewhat out-of-date. However, I thought I had things working, until I started to get complete system lock-ups. I eventually started taking things out, until I realized that if I put snd-via8233 or snd-pcm-oss or snd-mixer-oss into /etc/modules.autoload, then I was getting an error message on boot after the modules were loaded that 'ALSA was already loaded'. So I took those modules out of the autoload file, and ALSA initialized just fine. However, I didn't have oss support. If I type:

modprobe snd-pcm-oss
modprobe snd-mixer-oss

after boot, then everything works fine, and I don't seem to be getting lock-ups anymore.

Is there a was I can have those modules loaded automatically without using the /etc/modules.autoload? Is there a way to get /etc/init.d alsasound to load those two modules as well?

Thanks for any help,

Chuck
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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2002 1:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting. I get the 'ALSA was already loaded' message too, but sound works, if not as good as under Win2K.
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cmay4
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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2002 2:15 am    Post subject: Hmmm... Reply with quote

If you are only using the ALSA (and not OSS), then just remove the lines from modules.autoload. Everything works fine (and it evens "remembers" the mixer settings.

I am really stumped on the OSS stuff though.
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cmay4
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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2002 4:04 am    Post subject: Ok...I got it. Reply with quote

After furthur reading in the forums (I somehow missed this one the first time around), I found this thread:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1849&highlight=snd+pcm+oss+modprobe

It still seems like a hack, but at least it works. Thanks to everyone.

Chuck
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