[gobolinux-users] ALSA doesn't work

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:21:08 +0200, Patrick Smith <baelog01 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your help guys. I played around a little with it over the weekend and here is the
> summary.
>
> Removing (technically renaming) the /System/Kernel/Modules/.../kernel/sound/oss folder helps.
> There is no need to modprobe, the correct modules are somehow already loaded. ALSA works and so
> does aRts, however whenever I try running Noatun the aRts daemon crashes (this would happen before
> as well). Now, I can live without Noatun, but it makes me wonder what the problem is since I
> presume it's supposed to work. The thing I found odd is that even though the OSS modules were
> essentially removed KDE, MPlayer, etc. were quite happy to use OSS when told to. I'm assuming this
> is because ALSA supports the OSS API.
>
Then the question is if we still should ship with OSS modules by default.
If we continue with OSS, is there a way to stop OSS modules to load if ALSA modules is already
loaded and probe ALSA before OSS so no conflicts occur?

-- 
/Jonas

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