[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#366342: more info

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-09-28 19:13 +0200, Michael Gilbert wrote:

> for what its worth, even though invoking timidity's startup seems to error out:
>
> $ sudo invoke-rc.d timidity start
> Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation...
> ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No
> such file or directory
> error in snd_seq_open

FWIW, in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base there is a line

install snd /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe -Qb snd-seq ; }

but running the command between the braces, modprobe tells me that -Q is
not a valid option and that it only knows about -q.  However, I wonder
whether this command is actually reached, for I just reported #500470
against oss-compat which has a file /etc/modprobe.d/oss-compat
containing

install snd modprobe --ignore-install snd && modprobe snd-seq-oss && modprobe snd-mixer-oss && modprobe snd-pcm-oss

but none of the snd-*-oss modules get loaded.

Sven