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From: "Tero Grundström" <tero@××××××××××××.fi>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sound driver
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:15:47
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.58.0412061606020.18715@vuosaari.hai.fi
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sound driver by Holly Bostick
1 On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Holly Bostick wrote:
2
3 > I do think that this works because some ALSA modules really prefer to be
4 > modules under udev, but some flatly cannot-- for example, snd-seq-oss
5 > cannot be a module (despite what the Help says), but snd-seq (on which
6 > snd-seq-oss depends), can. So some parts of a complete ALSA install
7 > cannot be put in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, where udev prefers
8 > to have them (because statically compiled modues are loaded before udev
9 > is running, so it can't create devices for them).
10 >
11 > So the first run loads the forced static compiles, and the second run
12 > loads the modules.
13
14 FYI,
15
16 I've had alsa compiled 100% static in kernel - worked perfectly.
17
18 I now have:
19
20 - alsa compiled 100% as modules
21 - nothing in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
22 - alsasound added only to bootlevel
23
24 Works perfectly.
25
26 --
27 T.G.
28
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Re: [gentoo-user] sound driver Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>