Thanks :-)  I wasn't at all familiar with probeall but that seems to be
exactly what I needed :-)

Adam

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Aaron Gaudio wrote:

> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:01:50 -0400
> From: Aaron Gaudio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Devfs & Alsa...
>
> And lo, upon Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 03:22:28PM -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff spaketh thusly:
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > You seem to be missing the snd-pcm-oss module.
> > > esd & the like require the /dev/dsp (aka /dev/sound/dsp)
> > > file, which isn't being created for you.
> >
> > Hmmm... That was exactly the problem.  As soon as I manually loaded the
> > module, the device was created.
> >
> > So now the question is: How do I get Alsa to automatically load that
> > module?
> >
> > My modules.conf file lists that module:
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > # ALSA portion
> > alias /dev/sound snd-ens1371
> > alias /dev/dsp snd-service-0-3
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
> > options snd-ens1371 snd_index=0 snd_id="1371"
> >
> > # OSS/Free setup
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> > 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
> >
> > post-install snd-ens1371 alsactl restore 0
> >
> > Any more ideas?
> >
> > Adam
> >
>
> Try adding the following to your /etc/modules.conf:
>
> probeall /dev/sound sound-slot-0 sound-service-0-0 sound-service-0-1 
>sound-service-0-3 sound-service-0-8 sound-service-0-12
>
> This will force all the aliases (including sound-service-0-3, which is
> aliased to snd-pcm-oss) to get loaded when you lookup /dev/sound (which
> devfs will do when something tries to stat() the directory).
>
> --
>
> Aaron Gaudio                           prothontar @ tarnation.dyndns.org
>                    http://tarnation.dyndns.org/~aaron
>                             ----------------
>   "From fullness, aspect. From aspect, being. From being, emptiness."
>



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