On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:23 -0500, M P Smoak wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2006 15:17, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:15 -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
> > > >>>>> "CL" == Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden> writes:
> > > >> Jan 11 12:08:23 serpent modprobe: FATAL: Error
> > > >> inserting snd_seq_oss
> > > >> (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-686/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/
> > > >>snd-seq-oss.ko): Device or resource busy
> > >
> > > CL> What are the output of lsmod, and the contents of
> > > CL> /proc/asound/oss/devices?
> > >
> > > [come]# cat /proc/asound/oss/devices
> > > 2: [0- 2]: raw midi
> > > 12: [0-12]: digital audio
> > > 3: [0- 3]: digital audio
> > > 0: [0- 0]: mixer
> > > 13: [0-13]: raw midi
> > > [come]#
> >
> > You have a bunch of OSS modules loaded, don't do that:
> >
> > sound 80332 1 uart401
> > uart401 11332 0
> > ac97_codec 20108 0
> >
> > Lee
>
> Pardon me, but what does that mean?
>
OSS was the old sound system used before ALSA, it's incompatible with
ALSA.
Your distro's init scripts would not do this on their own, unless it's a
truly ancient distro. Probably someone added "uart401" to the list of
modules loaded in a misguided attempt to get MIDI working.
Lee
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