I've tried Arjan's test kernels in the past and discarded them due to their inability to work with my wireless pcmcia card, but they all loaded the sound modules properly on boot. I've installed Arjan's kernel-2.6.0-0.test9.1.90 kernel which happily works with my pcmcia card for wireless (which has always worked with vanilla 2.6test kernels), but the sound modules no longer load on boot. The also appears to happens with a vanilla 2.6test kernel (2.6-test9-bk17). I can't correlate this to another other updates that I have done. The modules load properly with modprobe.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
-josh
Hi Josh,
I'd bevery interested to hear what happens here as well because I have the same problem. I've google'd, search the mailing lists (this one and fedora-list), and have had no luck. Like you, I can happily load up the module using "modprobe ali5451", but it wont load it on boot.
Here's a couple of links that might help
http://www.fearthecow.net/index.pl?section=guest&page=alsa http://thomer.com/linux/migrate-to-2.6.html
HTH. If you get any better information let me know.
-Dan
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Joshua Legbandt wrote:
I've tried Arjan's test kernels in the past and discarded them due to their inability to work with my wireless pcmcia card, but they all loaded the sound modules properly on boot. I've installed Arjan's kernel-2.6.0-0.test9.1.90 kernel which happily works with my pcmcia card for wireless (which has always worked with vanilla 2.6test kernels), but the sound modules no longer load on boot. The also appears to happens with a vanilla 2.6test kernel (2.6-test9-bk17). I can't correlate this to another other updates that I have done. The modules load properly with modprobe.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
-josh
On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:50, Joshua Legbandt wrote:
I've tried Arjan's test kernels in the past and discarded them due to their inability to work with my wireless pcmcia card, but they all loaded the sound modules properly on boot. I've installed Arjan's kernel-2.6.0-0.test9.1.90 kernel which happily works with my pcmcia card for wireless (which has always worked with vanilla 2.6test kernels), but the sound modules no longer load on boot. The also appears to happens with a vanilla 2.6test kernel (2.6-test9-bk17). I can't correlate this to another other updates that I have done. The modules load properly with modprobe.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
-josh
I've tryed kernel-2.6.0-0.test9.1.90 yesterday. No sound at all (i810 audio with 2.4, ECS K7S5A - SIS 735 chipset) even after I loaded every module from the sound drivers. Kudzu complained thad my RTL8139C and 3Com 3C59x were removed (I told it to do nothing) and after this that they were installed (do nothing again) and they worked just fine.
Another disadvantage is that when I 'hdparm -Tt /dev/hda' with the 2.4 kernel I'm getting 333MB/sec chached and 53MB/sec raw transfer vs 333MB/sec chached and 32MB/sec raw with 2.6 (80GB Baracuda/7200RPM).
ps: I found no scsi emulation (ide-scsi) and had to reconfigure my CD.
Joshua Legbandt wrote:
I've tried Arjan's test kernels in the past and discarded them due to their inability to work with my wireless pcmcia card, but they all loaded the sound modules properly on boot. I've installed Arjan's kernel-2.6.0-0.test9.1.90 kernel which happily works with my pcmcia card for wireless (which has always worked with vanilla 2.6test kernels), but the sound modules no longer load on boot. The also appears to happens with a vanilla 2.6test kernel (2.6-test9-bk17). I can't correlate this to another other updates that I have done. The modules load properly with modprobe.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
It looks like latest -bk snapshots try to load module by slightly different names. If, for example, it tried to load char-major-14 for mixer device, now it tries to load char-major-14-<minor dev number>.
I fixed this problem by changing in /etc/modprobe.conf alias char-major-14 soundcore by alias char-major-14-* soundcore.
same goes for NVidia drivers, where I had to change alias char-major-195 nvidia by alias char-major-195-* nvidia
HTH
P.S. I hope someone can elaborate on why this behavior changed.
Pavel.
Thanks Pavel!
I now finally have the nvidia module autoloaded under 2.6. I never had this problem with RH9 and 2.6. For the ALSA modules to load properly I just installed the alsa-driver package (under 2.4) which installs alsasound in /etc/rc.d/init.d. Alsasound can then be added to chkconfig.
I fixed this problem by changing in /etc/modprobe.conf alias char-major-14 soundcore by alias char-major-14-* soundcore.
same goes for NVidia drivers, where I had to change alias char-major-195 nvidia by alias char-major-195-* nvidia
HTH
P.S. I hope someone can elaborate on why this behavior changed.
Pavel.
Greets,
Jurgen
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