Re: alsasound init script (Re: possible problems with rc6 aplay )

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@attbi.com>]

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 07:23, Paul Davis wrote:
> >> that reminds me. the last version of the alsasound script that i saw
> >> did something very dangerous. it seemed to try to install *every*
> >> snd-card module it could find. if you have a system with an ISA bus,
> >> this can prove fatal to the system - many ISA device probes will kill
> >> the machine if the device is not present.
> > 
> >well, you can find that the alsasound script tries to load the modules
> >aliased as "snd-card-[0-9]", not the all snd-card-* modules.
> >remember that there is no module named as such.  that means, if such a
> >module is found, it was certainly configured by some means.
> 
> ah. sorry, i missed the -c on modprobe. i take it all back :(
> 
> --p

I wonder if this could have anything to do with a different problem I'm
seeing. I have a HDSP 9652 and a MidiMan 2X2 interface. The HDSP is
installed by alsaconf. The 2X2 is installed usign Fernando's
instructions from the Planet.

When I do a cold boot, the HDSP is always recognized first, and then the
MidiMan comes up as card 2, at least by reading the numbers of the
devices in /dev/snd. However, if I reboot, many times the system makes
the 2X2 card 1 and the HDSP card 2, and that breaks a lot of this
software.

What would cause this to happen and how could I stop it?

I have found that everything seems to work fine if I remember to unplug
the 2X2 when the reboot begins, but sometimes I don't remember and have
to go through one more boot cycle.

Cheers,
Mark



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