wierd alsa error during boot

[dufnutz]

When my kernel is going through its checklist it becomes red with a warning and says

"Alsa driver already loaded"

Does anyone know what line i need to delete in what text file? thanks

[genAlphA]

Do you have emerged alsa0.9 ?

If this the case, you have to remove all references to alsa driver in /etc/modules.autoload and see /etc/modules/d/alsa. This is a new config file and it contains some example for setting up alsa driver. Take care that some drivers have a different name from the alsa 0.5 ones.

Then re-rerun rc-update add alsa default

[pablored]

Okay, similar problem,
I have just emerged Alsa0.9 on a new system, and after the initial setup my oss sound doesn't work. On the old sys I loaded snd-pcm-oss in modules.autoload, but doing that now causes problems -> the alsa already started error. So, snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss have had to be removed from modules.autoload.

I have this in my alsa file... and also my modules.conf after 'update-modules'.
...
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
...

OSS compat is not loaded at Boot time, despite the service lines above. lsmod, has no mention of any oss. If i modprobe the two files, mixer and pcm, all is fine... but I don't really want to do that every time I boot my pc.

Anyone any ideas on what is going wrong?

Regards
Paul

[pablored]

I got things automated by adding a couple of lines to /etc/init.d/alsasound
.....
ebegin "Initialising ALSA."

drivers="`/sbin/modprobe -c | \
grep -E "^[[:space:]]*alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]" | \
awk '{print $3}'`"
for i in $drivers; do
if [ "$i" != off ]; then
einfon "Starting sound driver: $i "
/sbin/modprobe $i
/sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss # mod for oss
/sbin/modprobe snd-mixer-oss # mod for oss
eend 0
fi
done
.....

weird that this file did not start the soundcard services from the /etc/modules.d/alsa file from the beginning. My little mod will do me for now.