[KLUG Members] Autoloading sound modules and MP3 playback

[Adam Tauno Williams]

Can someone who used sndconfig to enable their sound card please post there
modules.conf file?  I'd like to compare it to mine. (My server has no sound
card, and all other Linux boxes are diskless LTSP that use monolithic kernels).

I've discovered a small problem with the laptop install I did the other day.
Sound works after running sndconfig,  but I have to run sndconfig to get it to
work.  It writes to /etc/modules.conf but the modules don't seem to autoload,
and modprobing the only module listed in /etc/modules.conf by hand doesn't seem
to do it either.  Either I or it am missing something obvious.

On another related note,  when I have sound working MP3 playback it terrible
with white noise in the background.  I know this isn't the drivers/modules,  as
I can use gqmpeg/mpg123 to decode an MP3 on my server and esd to stream the
audio to the laptop and all is good with the world.  The laptop has a Celery
processor somewhere between 500 and 600Mhz (don't remember exactly,  don't much
care about MHz ratings) which seems like it should be plenty to crunch an MP3.

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