[PlanetCCRMA] Keeping Alsa loaded

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> Thanks for your response, Fernando.I made the changes, and then I found
> this when I #dmesg:
> 
> Intel ICH soundcard not found or device busy

What is the context of the message? Where in the boot sequence does it
happen?

> This is probably the real problem. I don't remember having this before
> and I'll try to figure out what I did wrong.

Probably nothing. 
-- Fernando

> > > I got my sound card configured with Alsa following the installation
> > > instructions without any problems (though I had others). I'm not sure
> > > why, but everytime I re-boot, either as root or as a normal user, the
> > > OSS sound modules seem to be loaded. I go through the alsaconf process
> > > and tweak the /etc/modules.conf file to get them reloaded, but I always
> > > end up back in the old drivers when I re-boot.
> > > My /etc/modules.conf has been modified so much that I don't know where
> > > it should be at anymore. How can I get this back to normal?
> > > 
> > > /etc/modules.conf:
> > > alias eth0 e100
> > > alias usb-controller usb-uhci
> > > alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
> > > 
> > > #--- Keep modules from being autocleaned
> > > add options -k snd-card-0
> > > #--- ALSA configuration END
> > > # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
> > > # --- ALSACONF verion 0.9.0 ---
> > > alias char-major-116 snd
> > > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> > > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> > > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> > > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> > > options snd major=116 cards_limit=1
> > > options snd-intel8x0 index=0
> > > # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
> > 
> > Remove the following lines, that's the RedHat OSS configuration:
> > 
> > > alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
> > > post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
> > > >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > > pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
> > > >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > 
> > Type "/sbin/depmod -a"
> > Make sure alsa is activated to load on boot:
> >   /sbin/chkconfig --add alsasound
> > 
> > _and_, if kudzu (the RedHat hardware configurator) offers to reconfigure
> > your sound card politely decline the honor :-)