Peter Wallin wrote: > I'm using a Turlte Beach Santa Cruz (CS46xx) PCI-card and a Sound > blaster MP3+ card. The Santa Cruz is doing fine, but I'm having > lots of difficulties with the USB-card. > > At times I can get the whole setup running perfectly. But this > usually requires several re-boots of the computer and during > boot-up I usually get several error messages about "insmod failed: > failed to load snd-usb-audio" or "insmod failed: soundcore already > exists" or "insmod failed: audio already exists". > > Also when the ALSA-USB portion fails, the regular OSS drivers > seems to have kicked in (since I can run kmixer with no problem > and configure the usb-card). This is especially strange since I > have commented out the OSS-portion of modules.conf! > > All this has led me to believe that the regular OSS-drivers aren't > fully surpressed during startup. Any way to check this? Or does > anyone have a better idea how to fix this?
The audio driver gets loaded by the hotplug scripts (which are supposed to load drivers when a device is plugged in, but are called when booting, too). To prevent the audio driver from loading, disable it in the kernel configuration, or add "audio" to the /etc/hotplug/blacklist file. HTH Clemens ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user