alsaconf checking for OSS modules

alsaconf checking for OSS modules

[Florian Schmidt]

Hi

i think quite a bit of trouble could be saved if the alsaconf script would check if any OSS modules are loaded. I think it's enough to spit out an error to the user. rmmod'ing them would fail in most cases anyways since users that use alsaconf usually run some desktop environment like kde or gnome, too. And these like to keep the modules busy with their mixer applets, sound servers, etc...

What do you guys think?

Flo

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Re: alsaconf checking for OSS modules

[Ferenc Wagner]

Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net> writes:

> i think quite a bit of trouble could be saved if the
> alsaconf script would check if any OSS modules are loaded.
> I think it's enough to spit out an error to the user.

Yes, definitely.  The alsaconf behaviour is somewhat
confusing as it correctly identifies the card and then fails
to load the modules showing the error message from a couple
of seconds only.
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Feri.


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Re: alsaconf checking for OSS modules

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:52:13 +0200,
Florian Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> i think quite a bit of trouble could be saved if the alsaconf script
> would check if any OSS modules are loaded. I think it's enough to spit
> out an error to the user. rmmod'ing them would fail in most cases
> anyways since users that use alsaconf usually run some desktop
> environment like kde or gnome, too. And these like to keep the modules
> busy with their mixer applets, sound servers, etc... 
> 
> What do you guys think?

Well, it's not so easy to find out the running OSS module name.

A possible solution would be to parse the output of lsmod and
check the dependency of soundcore module.  But, we need to take it
into account that lsmod output format is different between 2.4 and
2.6.  Sigh...


Takashi


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