[gobolinux-users] ALSA doesn't work

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 7/3/07, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> 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?

The latest versions of the Linux recipe doesn't ship OSS drivers
anymore when there's a corresponding ALSA driver. On the "preferences"
thing, I think it's doable through modprobe.conf, but that's
absolutely horrible to do by hand.

-- 
Lucas
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