[KLUG Members] Autoloading sound modules and MP3 playback

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>What kind of sound device does your laptop have? 

The modules selected is maestro3,  or something very simliar to that.  I
don't have it with me at the moment.

>Is it also PNP?  

I'd assume so, it is integrated (haven't seen a laptop with an ISA slot
in awhile :).

>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.

They always work for me.  If they don't, you just haven't sacrificed the
right species yet.  What do you think happened to all the Buffalo?  The
Crystal Audio chipset!  (That whole thing about trains, white people,
and guns,  thats all myth).

>Believe me, the configuration from one device to another can vary tremendously.

Oh, I believe you.

> 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)

Right, but OBVIOUSLY sndconfig is modprobing diffrently then it is
sticking in /etc/modules.conf.  Does sndconfig have an "expert" mode
where is actually says what it is doing?