Re: Automounting my 1394 drives causes Alsa to not load...

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@attbi.com>]

On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 12:31, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > 1) Old problem - if my MidiSport 2x2 is plugged in when I cold boot,
> > then Alsa gets loaded when the MidiSport is found. When I get to the
> > part of the boot process where Alsa is supposed to get started, I get a
> > 'Failed' message, telling me Alsa is already running. Even this is OK,
> > but then later when Linux attempt to load the HDSP 9652 drivers, they
> > fail one out of two times saying they cannot allocate memory.
> 
> I think the solution to this one is to "blacklist" the alsa driver so
> that hotplug does not load it while the system is starting up. To do
> that just add a line with "snd-usb-audio" to the end of 
>   /etc/hotplug/blacklist
> You probably already have "audio" and "usb-midi" there (the oss kernel
> modules that deal with usb audio and midi). 
> 
Fernando,
   Thanks! Early indications are that this helps. I'll keep an eye on it
and see how it goes.

Cheers,
Mark



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