[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#240125: The new broken world of 2.6, ALSA, and hotplug.

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:44:43PM -0800, Scott Robinson wrote:

 > #1) Hotplug has recently started automatically loading drivers via
 > PCI enumeration in its init script. This alone has caused a variety
 > of problems.
 > 
 > #2) ALSA's init script is executed after hotplug. The mixer settings
 > are then "restored."
 > 
 > #3) ALSA's init script then detects that the drivers are already
 > loaded, and assumes this is because ALSA was compiled statically in
 > to the kernel.

 I recently ran into this after an upgrade.

 The way I understood the problem, it only shows up on systems with
 several sound cards, which I dare guess, is not the rule but the
 exception.  Isn't that right?

 I just went ahead and blacklisted the ALSA drivers.  I was left
 wondering if /etc/hotplug/blacklist supports wildcards.

 Marcelo