[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#439870: Bug#439870: Bug#439870: aplay fails to load my driver module snd-sb16

[David Lawyer]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:18:21PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 the mental interface of
> Elimar Riesebieter told:
> 
> > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 the mental interface of
> > David Lawyer told:
> > 
> > >Package:alsa-utils
> > >Version: 1.0.14-1
> > >
> > >When I type aplay ..., there is no sound and the sound modules fail to
> > >load.  I used strace to find out why.  aplay tries to open
> > >/dev/snd/controlC0 and then tries /dev/aloadC0.  Both fail to open
> > >since they don't exist.  After trying in vain C0, C1, C2, ... aplay
> > >gives up and exits with an error message "cannot find card ' '".
> > 
> > It seems you have an ISA card?
> 
> Any progress? Can I close this bug?

I haven't had time to look into it.  Yes, I have an ISA card with no
PnP.  So the two devices above are never put into /dev at boottime
since the kernel doesn't look for non-pnp ISA cards.  But alsa
should realize that these devices don't exist and create them.  The alsa
configuration has created the file in /etc/modutils/sound:

alias sound snd_sb16
options sound irq=10 isapnp=0

This driver is for ISA cards.  So shouldn't alsa know enough to create
the control device and realize that the kernel doesn't know about the
card and thus never created any device for it.  Since the devices exist
in /dev/.static/dev, perhaps alsa should look there for the devices.

			David Lawyer