15 Jan
2005
15 Jan
'05
10:29 p.m.
Last Sunday 16 January 2005 00:24, Christoph Eckert was like:
Hi,
just for fun and for learning the system, I wanted to write a
small script which automatically configures any soundcards
(similar to alsaconf).
Based on PCI, I wanted to get all vendor and card IDs and
modprobe each ALSA module to each card found and check the
result.
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be that easy. Could anyone
confirm, that I cannot load a module to a certain PCI card?
Furthermore, modprobe does not give any error when probing a
module for a card I do not have.
And I found no way to get backwards the card ID for a loaded
module :( .
Does anyone know a way how I can find out which cards are in
the system and which module fits to it?
Any wee small hint is very welcome.
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.
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.
Not quite in the same league, but also very useful is
http://alsa.opensrc.org/?aadebug for simple alsa diagnostics.
cheers
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk