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

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:46:45 +0100,
I wrote:
> 
> > It would be better to make the alsasound script more robust (and
> > independent of the startup order) and able to deal with partially loaded
> > modules, so instead of just checking for the /proc/asound directory it
> > would actually see what modules are already loaded and only load those
> > that are not. It does not look too easy, it seems that /proc/asound does
> > not provide a list of loaded modules (rather a list of cards that are
> > not associated with module names). 
>  
> agreed.  a scenario i can imagine now is that the script just takes a
> look at /proc/asound/cards and checks the numbers at the first column.
> this should correspond to the card indices which have been already
> loaded.  then the script will try to load the modules snd-card-X but
> skip the numbers listed in the above...
> i'll try to rewrite as this way.

after reconsideration: it would be much simpler to create a new proc
file which shows the modules already loaded.


Takashi


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