[PlanetCCRMA] Removing oss kernel modules in FC2

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 18:32, Leon Kackman wrote:
> I am pretty new to linux (and to lists like this, my apologies in
> advance) and I am attempting to configure the alsa driver in Fedora core
> 2. I have installed the CCRMA version of FC2 and all has gone well,
> thank-you for the work you have done to make it possible. I have three
> questions:
> 
> I am trying to remove the oss kernel modules and I would like to know
> which modules to remove and to know how to turn them off before removing
> them? Here is my list (before running alsaconf) and what happens when I
> run '/sbin/rmmod':

Sorry, my fault, I need to add new instructions for FC2. FC2 does not
use OSS at all so there are no modules to remove. If the initial install
of FC2 recognized your soundcard you don't need to run alsaconf either. 

> [root at mtswir104 leon]# /sbin/lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> audio                  37504  0

Hmm, except for this one, I seem to remember this is the usb audio
module (non-alsa), do you have a usb soundcard?

> snd_mixer_oss          18432  1
> snd_emu10k1            85512  1
> snd_rawmidi            23076  1 snd_emu10k1
> snd_pcm                85128  1 snd_emu10k1
> snd_timer              23684  1 snd_pcm
> snd_seq_device          8200  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
> snd_ac97_codec         63748  1 snd_emu10k1
> snd_page_alloc         11016  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
> snd_util_mem            4480  1 snd_emu10k1
> snd_hwdep               9732  1 snd_emu10k1
> snd                    54532  9
> snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep
> soundcore               6496  3 audio,snd

> [root at mtswir104 leon]# /sbin/rmmod audio
> [root at mtswir104 leon]# /sbin/rmmod snd_mixer_oss
> ERROR: Module snd_mixer_oss is in use

snd_mixer_oss is the alsa module for oss emulation so it is fine...

> Also in looking about, I do not appear to have a modules.conf file, any
> thoughts about this?

kernel 2.6.x uses modprobe.conf instead

-- Fernando