[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: How to get Soundblaster to autoload? -- Success!

[Darin W. Smith]

Glad to hear it! (I'm sure you are too!) ;)

I don't know why SuSE would've said snd-emu10k1.  Maybe they were intending 
to add a line like:
alias snd-emu10k1 emu10k1

which would also have made it work (aliases expand as far as they can).  
BTW, you can probably find where all this stuff gets called in 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sound.  It looks like SuSE is trying to work with a couple 
of different potential init scripts here:  the Redhat & Mandrake default is 
to go through and modprobe any sound-slot-x.  I'm guessing that some other 
version of init scripts tries to modprobe any snd-card-x.  So they take 
care of both in modules.conf by aliasing one name to the other.

Glad you got it working.  TuxRacer and Quake3 are both much more exciting 
with sound! (As is listening to ogg-vorbis files).

<political commentary>Go IBM!  Tear SCO up!  If I have to cheer for 
lawyers, I'm going to cheer for the ones that are on the right 
side.</political commentary>

D!

On Tue, 20 May 2003 08:52:05 -0500, Dennis Daupert <ddaupert at csc.com> 
wrote:

>
>> From: "Darin W. Smith" <darin_ext at darinsmith.net>
>> you could try adding to your /etc/modules.conf file:
>> alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
>
> Hey, Darin, that did the trick. I was a little thrown off because
> YaST2 had written the following lines in modules.conf:
>
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>
> and that worked fine when I first installed Suse out-of-the-box
> with no kernel recompile.
>
> Anyways, following your suggestion I tweaked modules.conf;
> I commented out yast's line:
>
> #  alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
>
> and I added
>
> alias snd-card-0 emu10k1
>
> Sound came up at boot. Thanks for the assist!
>
>> From: jeremy <jeremyb at univista.com>
>> Do you have any other "Blaster" cards installed?
>
> No, no other cards, but I appreciate the suggestion, may come in
> handy someday if I do try multiple cards.
>
> /dennis
>
>
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