On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:48:35PM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: > > I ended up with both the alsa and the oss modules loaded. Does anyone > have any idea why the oss modules are loading? They certainly aren't > anywhere in either modules.conf or modutils/*. > /etc/modules maybe? That file specifies what modules to load. You could also try to move the modules in question out of the way (or even delete), same goes for the ones that give you depmod errors. > When I do that, and then run "/etc/init.d/alsa start", here are the > modules I end up with: > > snd-emu10k1 75336 1 (autoclean) > snd-pcm-oss 39464 1 (autoclean) > snd-mixer-oss 13848 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] > snd-pcm 61124 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss] > snd-timer 14532 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm] > snd-hwdep 5248 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1] > snd-util-mem 1264 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1] > snd-ac97-codec 55580 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1] > snd-rawmidi 13504 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1] > snd-seq-device 4160 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] > snd 33508 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] > soundcore 3940 6 (autoclean) [snd] > > Does this look right? soundcore has the same name as an oss driver, I > think. Is there any chance I'm loading the wrong one? > No, soundcore ist just the generic sound support module, it is the same for ALSA and OSS. Otherwise it all looks good to me. Just for comparison, here is what 'lsmod | grep snd' gives me for my onboard Via: snd_pcm_oss 53800 0 snd_mixer_oss 19712 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_via82xx 29028 1 snd_ac97_codec 68868 1 snd_via82xx snd_pcm 94756 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx snd_timer 24452 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11720 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart 7616 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi 24576 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 8264 1 snd_rawmidi snd 55268 15 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 9824 1 snd gameport 4608 2 snd_via82xx,grip > When I run timidity on a MIDI file, either from my own account or from > root, it looks like it thinks it's playing, and I get no error > messages as a user. I have unplugged a usb device and removed its > module, and this gets rid of the messages about sharing IRQ's that > were showing up in /var/log/messages, so there are now no error > messages anywhere that I know about. > Run alsamixer again and make sure that the channels are turned up AND unmuted (press 'm' to toggle). cheers, Christian -- "Somewhere in Texas... a village is missing its idiot."