Hi,
thanks a lot for the help, Clemens.
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> The "options snd-xxx index=..." lines look OK.
thanks for the confirmation, this already helps a lot.
> Please check in /sys/module/snd-xxx/parameters/index that the options
> actually got applied.
Urgs, thanks for the hint. Doesn't seem to be the case:
cat /sys/module/snd_usb_audio/parameters/index
-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1
The same for the AC '97 chip.
> > II.) When doing an /etc/init.d/alsasound restart, all cards are
> > lost. cat /proc/asound/cards tell me "no cards". I get back my USB
> > devices as soon as I replug them thanks to hotplug, but the
> > internal card is lost until I reload the modules manually *or*
> > reboot the machine.
>
> How does the alsasound script look like?
>
> I guess it looks for snd-card-x aliases in /etc/modprobe.conf, and
> your first problem may indicate that this file doesn't exist.
/etc/modprobe.conf does exist but only contains a coment that edits
should go to /etc/modules.conf. AFAIK the former one is for 2.4 kernels
while the latter one is for 2.6, right?
When I look into /etc/modules.conf, I can find the lines
### modules-update: start processing /etc/modules.d/alsa
and
### modules-update: end processing /etc/modules.d/alsa
Between them, I find the lines I put in /etc/modules.d/alsa manually, so
this looks promising.
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> /etc/modules.d/alsa :-) or wherever your distribution wants to have
> the "options" lines for modules.
OK, thanks to your questions I understood the loading of the modules a
bit better. So I added the nrpacks parameter into /etc/modules.d/alsa;
the line now reads as
options snd-usb-audio index=2,3,4,5 vid=0x0ccd,0x0763,0x0763,0x0582
pid=0x0028,0x1033,0x0117,0x0009 nrpacks=1
I hope I got the syntax right.
So I think:
* I sucessfully edited /etc/modules.d/alsa
* This file gets sucessfully processed by modules-update
* Its contents are sucessfully ported to /etc/modules.conf
But OTOH somehow it look like /etc/alsasound start doesn't care
about /etc/modules.conf, because otherwise ALSA should know my AC '97
card as well as my USB hardware (by loading the modules).
So I open /etc/init.d/alsasound. At the beginning I find the following
comment:
# Rewritten for better support for built-in drivers
# Jeremy Huddleston <eradicator@xxxxxxxxxx>
# 2004.06.02
Then I see the following lines; nothing special...
alsactl=/usr/sbin/alsactl
asoundcfg=/etc/asound.state
aconnect=/usr/bin/aconnect
...except for this one:
alsascrdir=/etc/alsa.d
This directory doesn't exist at all.
Furthermore I searched for a line containing "modules.conf" but I didn't
detect any. "/etc/init.d/alsa" calls "modprobe" at several lines. Does
"modprobe" read "/etc/modules.conf"?!? I hope so, but is hope
enough ;-) ?
Is there any way to check whether /etc/modules.conf is read while
loading the ALSA modules or not?
Best regards
ce
