On Tue, 20.04.10 16:04, John Frankish (j-frankish at slb.com) wrote: > Hi, > > Dumb question maybe, but.. > > Does pulseaudio require alsa or oss to be configured to detect a soundcard or should it detect the soundcard without either alsa or oss configured? > > The reason I ask is that the pulseaudio udev module will not detect > the soundcard on my dell latitude D430 with/without alsa configured, > but module-detect will detect the soundcard as long as alsa is > configured. Uh? ALSA is the Linux sound driver interface. Without it your audio hardware will of course not be accessible. (And forget about OSS) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4