Re: sound module autoloading

Helge Hafting (helge.hafting@daldata.no)
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:20:21 +0100

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> > Then, when soundcore gets loaded, soundcore runs request_module for
> > sound-slot-0 (at least on my machine), and sound-service-0-3. Should
> > sound-slot-0 be aliased to the actual sound-card that will be initialized,
>
> For current drivers sound-slot-0 is all you will need and sound-service can
> I think be off. Thats more relevant to ALSA
>
> sound-slot-0 says "part of soundcard 0 was opened"
> sound-service-x-y says "service x of card y"
>
> So for soundblaster you might want sound-service-0-something hooked to load
> opl3 for example

What happens when the user request /dev/dsp1 ?
A request for sound-slot-1? I want to load the sb module in this case...

Helge Hafting

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