Re: sound-slot-1?

[Catalin Bucur <cata@geniusnet.ro>]

Assuming that you are using alsa drivers, these messages can be ignored. 
They complain about inexistence of another sound card. In order to force 
alsa to use only one card you can put this line in /etc/modules.conf:
options snd cards_limit=1

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> I have a Sound Blaster PCI-128 sound card installed (and working) in my 
> system.  Linux 2.4.20 from RedHat 7.3.  There are no other sound devices 
> in my system.  The following is the snipet from /etc/modules.conf which 
> configures it:
> 
> # Entry for Sound Blaster 128/PCI
> alias sound-slot-0 es1370
> options sound lineout=1
> 
> Why then am I getting the following messages in my log files?
> 
>>  Jul 23 16:27:38 kjc386 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
>> sound-slot-1
>>  Jul 23 16:27:38 kjc386 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
>> sound-service-1-0
>>  Jul 23 16:27:39 kjc386 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
>> sound-slot-1
>>  Jul 23 16:27:39 kjc386 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
>> sound-service-1-0
>>  Jul 23 16:29:16 kjc386 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
>> sound-slot-1
>>  Jul 23 16:29:16 kjc386 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
>> sound-service-1-0
>>  Jul 23 16:29:16 kjc386 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
>> sound-slot-1
>>  Jul 23 16:29:16 kjc386 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
>> sound-service-1-0
> 
> 
> I suspect that they are coming from either the Mozilla browser or the 
> Mozilla Email client (probably from SPAM emails).  But why are they 
> sound-slot-1 and sound-service-1-0 errors.  Why don't they use the 
> sound-slot-0 or sound-service-0-0????   Could it be because some other 
> application has the -0 devices in use?
> 
> Is there any way to keep the system from trying to use the -1 stuff?
> 


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