-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:32:34 +0100, Toralf Lund wrote:
> > > In order to avoid annoying messages of the type > > > modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 > > > on a machine with no sound card installed, I've added > > > alias sound-slot-0 off > > > > > > to /etc/modules.conf. This seems to work rather well, but I'm still > > > left with a lot of > > > > > > modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 > > > > > > Why? > > > > Because some kernel component tries to autoload a missing > > sub-component that handles sound-service-0-0. The reason can be > > mixing device access or probing of sound devices. > > Yes. I knew that. But I'd really like to know *exactly* what device is > accessed, and/or what application or deamon does it. I don't know what programs you run. It could be mixer software or sound servers accessing /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. > > > How can I avoid these? I guess I could alias "sound-service-0-0" to > > > "off" as well, but why would that be necessary? > > > > Which is a weird question. Add it to disable that log message. ;) > The question was really: > > Why isn't this line, or any mention at all of "sound-service-0-0", > necessary on systems that do have sound cards? Because a loaded sound driver provides the necessary devices already and no probing looks for further kernel modules. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE+SUKm0iMVcrivHFQRAgQ7AJoD4m8/m4M51nLJvrjCLVVa4TQBTwCXU6aq 3NvGFN0D20PgiVCeTAxRpA== =V6jx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
