[KLUG Members] Autoloading sound modules and MP3 playback

[Scott Wood]

What kind of sound device does your laptop have?  Is it also PNP?  I seem to be
masocistic when it comes to sound cards.  You know all those really weird one's
that show up in the kernel config that you have never heard of before?
(AudioExcelDSP, PAS16, Opti,  etc.) I have owned many of them - it seems the
dollar bins at the swap-n-shops are just full of sound cards that noone else
can seem to get configured properly or get drivers for.

Believe me, the configuration from one device to another can vary tremendously.
 Keep in mind the only 'kill-or-die' settings in modules.conf are those which
specify sub parameters.  The rest are generally entered in there for ease of
use (with a few exceptions).  Aliases for example are just there so that you
can say 'modprobe sb1' instead of 'modprobe soundcore ; modprobe soundlow ;
modprobe sound ; modprobe mad16 io=0x388 irq=9 mpu_irq=11 mpu_io=0x330 ;
modprobe opl3 ; modprobe mpu'.  (well, depmod helps with that too)

Scott

--- Adam Tauno Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Systems and Network Administrator
> Morrison Industries
> 1825 Monroe Ave NW.
> Grand Rapids, MI. 49505
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