4 Jul
2006
4 Jul
'06
1:05 p.m.
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 15:54, nigel henry wrote:
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 15:05, Dave Phillips wrote:
Hi Dave. Apologies. I missed the point you made about your additions
to /etc/modprobe.d/sound NOT working.
Secondly. I've booted up Etch to check the files, and can confirm that in my
case, with one sound card, and the usb midi keyboard, it looks like this
in /etc/modutils/sound.
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
options snd-emu10k1 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
options snd-usb-audio index=1
Then running update-modules, updates the file /etc/modules.conf (sorry I had
the filename wrong before. It is not /etc/modprobe.conf).
Nigel.
Greetings:
I'm preparing a final draft of an article re: ALSA and I started
wondering about whatever happened to modules.conf. In my old RH9 (2.4
kernel) I was able to freely manipulate the ALSA modules (designate for
loading, reorder, set alias, etc) via /etc/modules.conf. Things have
changed a lot in 2.6.x, and /etc/modules.conf is apparently not to be
edited in Ye Olden Way. Is there a similar single file in the 2.6 file
system ? If so, where is it ? On my Debian Etch system I have this file :
/etc/modprobe.d/sound
It looks like the file to change a la the old-time modules.conf, but my
entries have no effect. Is there another file located elsewhere that I
should be editing ? Here's my /etc/modprobe.d/sound :
alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1712
options snd-ice1712 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1
options snd-emu10k1 index=1
alias snd-card-2 snd-virmidi
options snd-virmidi index=2
Hi Dave. On FC1 using the 2.4 kernel the file was /etc/modudes.conf, and if
for example you have a usb midi keyboard, you have to create an alias for
snd-usb-audio, and create 2 options lines, so as to load the sound card
first, and snd-usb-audio second. This is due to the USB starting early in
the boot process, and Alsa wrongly seeing the usb midi keyboard using
snd-usb-audio as a soundcard, and loading it as card 0 if you don't set the
options.
FC2 and later using the 2.6 kernel use /etc/modprobe.conf, and for FC2 the
as above applies regarding setting options lines if you are using a usb
midi keyboard.
FC3, 4, and 5 have fixed the problem regarding the usb midi keyboard, when
I booted these post install the sound card worked, and the usb midi
keyboard was also ok. I'm in FC2 at the moment, but I'm pretty sure that
snd-usb-audio doesn't even show up in /etc/modprobe.conf, just the sound
card (Ihave only the 1).
In Debian Sarge, and Etch, I've always added snd-usb-audio, and the 2
options lines to /etc/modutils/sound , which updates, (and I think I've got
the filename right) /etc/modprobe.conf, which specifically tells you not to
make changes in it, as anything in /etc/modutils will
overwrite /etc/modprobe.conf. I've also seen folks saying to
use /etc/modprobe.d/sound, which obviously works. Perhaps it doesn't
matter, and you can use either method.
Sorry I can't help with the other ???'s, but the multipurpose Alsa control
panel sounds a nice idea.
Nigel.
> Also, what's the status of a user-friendly ALSA control and operations
> panel that might address such matters as ordering multiple soundcards,
> write/edit .asoundrc, start/stop ALSA services, etc. ? Is the ALSA
> development group pursuing anything like that ?
>
> Best,
>
> dp