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

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 19:49:19 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> 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?

It's a common case if you have a shiny PCI sound card, but left the
crappy onboard sound enabled and still use it occasionally.        
  
Regards,
Tino