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Shiner_Man
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 Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:38 am Post subject: Alsa Is Loading All The Modules |
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This is pretty annoying altough alsa still works. I just upgraded to the latest version of alsa-driver and now when I boot up alsa loads every single module it has. I did:
| Code: | env ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" emerge alsa-driver
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Worked fine. Now at boot time I get this:
| Code: | * Loading ALSA drivers...
* Loading: snd_emu10k1
* Loading: snd_intel8x0m
* Loading: snd_hdspm
FATAL: Error inserting snd_hdspm (/lib/modules/2.6.3-rc3-mm1/kernel/sound/pci/snd-hdspm.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
* Loading: snd_als4000
* Loading: snd_azt3328
* Loading: snd_bt87x
* Loading: snd_cmipci
* Loading: snd_cs4281
* Loading: snd_ens1370
* Loading: snd_ens1371
* Loading: snd_es1938
* Loading: snd_es1968
* Loading: snd_fm801
* Loading: snd_intel8x0
* Loading: snd_maestro3
* Loading: snd_rme32
* Loading: snd_rme96
* Loading: snd_sonicvibes
* Loading: snd_via82xx
* Loading: snd_mixart
* Loading: snd_au8810
* Loading: snd_au8820
* Loading: snd_au8830
* Loading: snd_ali5451
* Loading: snd_cs46xx
* Loading: snd_ice1712
* Loading: snd_ice1724
* Loading: snd_korg1212
* Loading: snd_nm256
* Loading: snd_rme9652
* Loading: snd_hdsp
* Loading: snd_trident
* Loading: snd_ymfpci
* Loading: snd_vx222
* Loading: snd-mixer-oss
* Loading: snd-pcm-oss
* Loading: snd-seq-oss
* Loading: snd-mixer-oss
* Loading: snd-pcm-oss
* Loading: snd-seq-oss
* Running card-dependent scripts
* Restoring Mixer Levels [ ok ]
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Ummm...I don't remember having to change any alsa configuration files after updating. Any idea whats causing alsa to want to load every module instead of just the one I need?
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:42 am Post subject: |
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| Have you done? Which kernel are you using? Have you (re)edited /etc/modules.d/alsa? |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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I have done modules-update and I'm using the mm-sources-2.6.3 kernel with emu10k1 compiled in as a module. /etc/modules.d/alsa has not changed at all. It looks like this:
| Code: | # Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v 1.1 2003/08/05 21:07:55 johnm Exp $
# ALSA portion
#alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
#alias char-major-14 soundcore
##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
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## ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371
## OSS/Free portion
## alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
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# 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/Free portion - card #2
## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
# Set this to the correct number of cards.
options snd cards_limit=1
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I noticed it says "Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file" at the top and I'm wondering why this file was not updated with the 1.0 release of alsa-driver.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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Alsa is included in the 2.6 kernels, so you should use the kernel drivers and not emerge alsa-drivers. You need alsa-utils tho. So try and emerge unmerge alsa-drivers.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 7:02 am Post subject: |
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So I don't need /etc/init.d/alsasound to run at boot time?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 7:08 am Post subject: |
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You don't need alsa-driver as you can use the built in kernel drivers. You still need to run alsasound though, as that does useful things like unmuting the soundcard, and also loading the modules if you don't compile the drivers into the kernel.
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Shiner_Man
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 7:54 am Post subject: |
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Okay I unmerged alsa-driver:
| Code: | | emerge -C alsa-driver |
Still get the same stuff at startup. I have hundreds of useless soundcard modules being loaded and I don't know why. This didn't happen until I updated the the newest version of alsa in portage.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Can you give me the output of
| Code: | | modprobe -c | grep -E "^[[:space:]]*alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]" |
as root? That's the way alsa detects what soundcard you have, let's see if its output is sensible.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | #modprobe -c | grep -E "^[[:space:]]*alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]"
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 |
I am in fact using emu10k1.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Hm... for now it's a mystery to me why all the modules get loaded, but it means one thing: all the modules are available on your system. So, compile only the emu10k1 module and the other ones cannot possibly be loaded. To make sure, check /lib/modules/[kernel version]/kernel/sound/pci, there should only be the emu10k1 module.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 7:09 am Post subject: |
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hmmm here is what I have in /lib/modules/2.6.3-rc3-mm1/kernel/sound/pci :
| Code: | ac97 cs46xx korg1212 pdplus snd-atiixp.ko snd-cmipci.ko snd-ens1371.ko snd-fm801.ko snd-intel8x0m.ko snd-rme96.ko trident
ali5451 emu10k1 mixart rme9652 snd-azt3328.ko snd-cs4281.ko snd-es1938.ko snd-hdspm.ko snd-maestro3.ko snd-sonicvibes.ko vx222
au88x0 ice1712 nm256 snd-als4000.ko snd-bt87x.ko snd-ens1370.ko snd-es1968.ko snd-intel8x0.ko snd-rme32.ko snd-via82xx.ko ymfpci
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I don't remember compiling all those modules in but apparently I did. Do I have to recompile or can I just delete the unnecessary modules in that directory?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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I went back and checked my kernel configuration and I do not have any of those modules installed. I think the problem is that when I emerged alsa-driver it emerged the modules for all the sound cards. I did do this though:
| Code: | | USE="emu10k1" emerge alsa-driver |
but it seems that alsa emerged all the possible sound card drivers anyway. Did I do something wrong?
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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Just make sure you haven't installed alsa-driver at the moment. Then delete all the soundcard modules and do a 'make modules; make modules_install' in /usr/src/linux to install the correct module.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 9:43 am Post subject: |
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Thanks BiOCHiP that did the trick. Now I know that the emerge of alsa-driver caused all the modules to be installed. I noticed that alsa-driver is a dependency for certain ebuilds I want. If I did:
| Code: | | USE="-alsa" emerge <package> |
would that work? I need the package to work with alsa but I don't want to install alsa-driver again.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Shiner_Man wrote: | Thanks BiOCHiP that did the trick. Now I know that the emerge of alsa-driver caused all the modules to be installed. I noticed that alsa-driver is a dependency for certain ebuilds I want. If I did:
| Code: | | USE="-alsa" emerge <package> |
would that work? I need the package to work with alsa but I don't want to install alsa-driver again. |
That would probably work, but it would also disable alsa support in that package. Which packages need alsa-driver? They ought to have been modified to cope with the fact that the 2.6 kernel provides the drivers...
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