[linux-audio-user] Probing modules

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi,


> At a guess & I ain't an expert, I would have thought that a
> look at the source code for alsaconf, kudzu &/ discover or
> even soundconfig or whatever would be enlightening here. Or
> even just the man pages:
> Kudzu detects the current hardware, and checks it against
>        a  database  stored  in  /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.
> discover provides an extensible hardware detection and
> reporting inter- face.  Hardware  information is stored in
> an XML data format and can be retrieved across the network.
> Try /usr/share/list.xml.

Well, I'm not really a programmer, but I have of course read 
alsaconf (still I didn't understand everything) and yesterday 
I downloaded soundconfig from the knoppix distribution.

> If you can come up with something 
> that works better than alsaconf on Debian (i.e. works ;-) I
> for one will be interested in your results.

Hehe, most probably I will give up ;-) .

> Not quite in 
> the same league, but also very useful is
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/?aadebug for simple alsa
> diagnostics.

OK, I'll have a look at it.

Thanks for your thouhts, and BTW I liked f_f__f_f ;-) .


 Best regards


    ce