From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from orion.sas.upenn.edu(ORION.SAS.UPENN.EDU[165.123.26.31]) (2645 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:00:57 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from wang (DIALIN0070.UPENN.EDU [128.91.16.70]) by orion.sas.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with SMTP id XAA02049 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:00:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00b401bf9dfb$dde22240$a4115b80@wang> From: "Victor Tsaran" To: References: <20000403150826.C2936@gotss1.gotss.eu.org> Subject: Re: alsa annoyance Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:03:31 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 List-Id: 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" To: 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@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > -- > Kerry Hoath: kerry@gotss.eu.org > Alternates: kerry@emusys.com.au kerry@gotss.spice.net.au or khoath@lis.net.au > ICQ UIN: 8226547 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup