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

[David Lawyer]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:04:13PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 the mental interface of
> David Lawyer told:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Sorry, are you running a 2.4 kernel? modutils are deprecated in
> etch/lenny/sid since we are running only 2.6 kernels here.

No, I'm running 2.6.21.  The same "sound" file is in /etc/modprobe.d
but I didn't realize this.  It seems that alsa creates the "sound"
file as well as other files in both the modprobe.d and modutils
directories.  Look at the package list for alsa-base.

			David Lawyer