Re: PROBLEM: ALSA requests module to early, before / is mounted

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:08:02 +0200,
Nikola Knezevic wrote:
> 
> Samo sto izbi 15:37, kad Takashi rece:
> 
> >> Hi, I'm really annoyed to see 'No soundcards found.' in logs:)
> 
> TI> you didn't build in emu10k1 driver.  so, at that stage, there is
> TI> really no available card :)
> 
> But I build one. modprobe snd-emu10k1 loads it.

did you put this module into initrd?
otherwise there is NO way to load the MODULE at that time (before
mounting the root).

> 
> >> Not an expert, but according to logs, ALSA is modprobeing to early, so
> >> it doesn't load snd-emu10k.
> 
> TI> yep, this should be avoided before root is mounted.
> 
> But for the time being, it isn't...
 
right.  but it's harmless anyway.  just annoying.

> >>  There is no call for modprobe snd-emu10k1 in
> >> rc.modules, so after booting I have to call it manually. Yes, I could
> >> put that call in rc.modules, but isn't it supposed to be called by ALSA?
> 
> TI> yes, but only if you set up /etc/modprobe.conf correctly to load the
> TI> modules automatically.
> TI> at least, you have to specify which card is the first one
> TI> (snd-card-0).
> 
> Did that long time ago, problem remains. Also, I'm using devfs.
 
perhaps that's the problem.

> TI> i recommend you either to build all ALSA stuffs as modules or to build
> TI> them into the kernel.
> 
> Something is build as modules, something went into kernel. Please see my
> message named: PROBLEM: <oops when unplugging USB Flash disk, somewhere
> in SCSI subsystem>, there is my .config file.

please read carefully: i wrote "ALSA stuffs" in the above.
not all kernel things, of course :)


ciao,

Takashi