[mythtv-users] Re: Sound Problem - Any Help Appreciated (A Little OT, but not much)

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, Keith wrote:

> Just a follow up for the group in case anyone else is interested.
>
> I removed ALSA (I had the latest - 0.9?) and configuration from the
> modules.conf file; once I restarted I had sound with nothing else to 
> do.
>
> Looks like Alsa screws things up in some cases; I'd recommend not 
> using it
> unless nothing else is working.

> Here's the complete contents of my modules.conf.
> [snip]
> alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
> # module options should go here
> options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 options snd-emu10k1 
> snd_index=0
> snd_id="SBlive"
[snip]

You removed ALSA and things worked right away on reboot because you 
still had the module info for OSS in /etc/modules.conf. Before removing 
ALSA, you were trying to load both ALSA and OSS drivers, which will 
definitely cause problems.

-jcw