Re: Hammerfall configuration

[patrick reardon <swpatrick@earthlink.net>]

Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> >line added to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:
> >
> >action "Loading ALSA Hammerfall driver" modprobe snd-rme9652
> >
> >/etc/modules.conf is set to load soundcore and snd-rme9652-mem before
> >snd-rme9 652, so this takes care of it.
> 
> this is not quite right. rc.sysint should load just
> snd-rme9652-mem. it will work the way you have it, but there is no
> reason to load snd-rme9652 in rc.sysinit - this (unlike
> snd-rme9652-mem) will require loading of all of the ALSA
> infrastructure as well.

i go ahead and do it anyway so i don't have to bother with it later, but i see your
point.  the *-mem module is the only one that really needs to be loaded early.

> 
> >action "Setting Hammerfall as master clock" alsactl restore snd-rme9652
> >
> >can be added after the modprobe command.
> 
> this will happen anyway if /etc/asound.state contains the relevant
> setting for the card. that is, if you've set it to master, and ALSA is
> shutdown normally, then /etc/asound.state will be used to reset the
> state when the alsasound init script runs.

ah.  a few days ago i removed the alsasound init script and just did everything by hand
trying to debug this problem.  guess i should put it back :-[

patrick


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