>> (i was getting >> snd: unable to register OSS mixer device 0:0 >> etc etc >> >> errors when doing 'modprobe snd-pcm-oss' )
What's going on here? I have similar problems, on a very vanilla system: video, sound, ethernet, and PCI. I had no problems for years; difficulties started after upgraging the BIOS; or maybe this has nothing to do with things. # I'm running Red Hat 7.2 $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.7-10 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 # Here is a list of modules, before loading the sound modules: $ lsmod Module Size Used by binfmt_misc 6416 1 parport_pc 14768 1 (autoclean) lp 6416 0 (autoclean) parport 25600 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] autofs 11520 0 (autoclean) (unused) natsemi 9520 1 ipchains 39200 0 ide-scsi 8224 0 scsi_mod 95696 1 [ide-scsi] ide-cd 27072 0 cdrom 28512 0 [ide-cd] nls_iso8859-1 2832 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 4352 1 (autoclean) vfat 9584 1 (autoclean) fat 32384 0 (autoclean) [vfat] usb-uhci 21536 0 (unused) usbcore 51712 1 [usb-uhci] ext3 64624 3 jbd 40992 3 [ext3] # Here is /etc/modules.conf $ cat /etc/modules.conf aliasparport_lowlevel parport_pc alias usb-controller usb-uhci alias eth0 natsemi alias eth1 natsemi # ALSA native device support alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 # Sound card configuration alias sound-slot-0 cmpci alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss # OSS/Free mixer levels load/store pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || : post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || : Running things by hand, "modprobe snd-card-0" and "modprobe sound-slot-0" both go OK, but "modprobe sound-service-0-0" provokes the evil message: driver-0.9.0beta12/alsa-kernel/core/oss/mixer_oss.c:995: unable to register OSS mixer device 0:0, err=-16 "err=-16" is my own patch to the snd-mixer-oss module. The error is -EBUSY; but it's not obvious to me what might be busy or what to do about it. Any further info will be gladly provided. Many thanks: Jonathan Ryshpan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained. -- The Tao of Programming _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user