Re: [linux-audio-user] CD audio

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] CD audio
From: Paul Winkler (pw_lists_AT_slinkp.com)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 09:56:52 EEST


On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 11:30:02PM -0700, Joseph Zitt wrote:
> Ah, OK. Since the Wiki said:
>
> | Most modern distros come with soundcore compiled as a module. You can
> | check this in numerous ways. The easiest way is to type.
> |
> | modprobe -n soundcore
> |
> | If this command returns that you have this module, then you don't need
> | to recompile your kernel.
>
> I expected the command to return some output telling me that it was
> there. It might be worth tweaking the Wiki to explain this.

Oops. I didn't spot the option... reading the man page,
modprobe -n "Don't actually perform the action, just show what
              would be done."

This is misleading because it doesn't need to do anything if
the module is already loaded, so it won't tell you anything...

I prefer lsmod | grep soundcore

> lsmod shows that it's there, and it's already appearing as enabled when
> I check via a "make xconfig". Do I understand that I don't have to
> change anything re: the kernel?

Sounds like you're OK there.

> I've now done the configure, make, and make install for the alsa driver,
> lib, utils, and tools. The Wiki next says to do the line
>
> modprobe snd-via8233;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe \
> snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss
>
> but also mentions the alsa-driver-xxx/utils/alsasound script for RedHat
> systems (I'm running RedHat 7.3). Should I do one or the other? Both?

One or the other.

> To get the modules to load whenever I boot, should I copy the line or
> the file somewhere?

Use the alsasound script. Put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d (or whatever
your distro calls it), and put the appropriate links in the
/etc/rcN.d directories, where N corresponds to the appropriate
runlevels. I'm not going to explain the init script system to
you... you'll have to RTFM for more info. I learned it
from "Running Linux" 2nd edition, so I can recommend that.

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