[Sound] Re: ess1869 audio - how to add sb to modules.conf

[Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Hutton (charlesh3@xxxxxxx) said: 
> Earlier this week I got my ESS1869 running manually by running a modprobe
> sb. I'm trying to get it running automatically as a loadable kernel module
> by adding a line to modules.conf.

alias sound-slot-0 sb

> Something else I don't understand is whether "alias xxxxxx yy" (in this case
> (alias sound-card-slot0 sb) actually loads any drivers.

No. It only means that when the kernel requests a specific device
or functionality that that module will be loaded.

Bill