In general, ALSA installation doesn't seem to be very friendly. I thought to install ALSA drivers in order to use Speak_freely, but eventually it turned out to be easier to recompile speak_freely with Dneeded_linear option to get it to talk to /dev/dsp. I still have some problems with this though. Regards, Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 10:08 PM Subject: Re: alsa annoyance > Rather than using the name for a specific soundcard the kernel requests services > like sound-card-0 or sound-slot-6. This way you aliase sound-card-0 to whatever > your primary soundcard is and the kernel will automatically load the modules > you require. If you don't want any autoloading happening either > alias sound-card-0 off > or compile kmod out of your kernel. > Regards, Kerry. > On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 07:44:21PM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm using alsa 0.5.6 and have noticed that when I load the alsa modules, > > modprobe complains about some modules that I never had in the first place, > > such as: > > snd-seq-client-62 > > snd-card-0 > > snd-card-1 > > > > Where is this coming from? There's no aliases in modules.conf like that. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > -- > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org > Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au > ICQ UIN: 8226547 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
