automaticaly loading modules

Moritz · 2003-10-15 10:08:54

hey!

I currently use ALSA modules to enable my SB-Audigy. Everything works perfectly!
I load them on startup by adding them to the "modules"-line at the rc.conf

My question: I don't want to load them at startup, because I didn't use it all the time. How to configure AL, to load the modules by using /dev/sound/dsp or mixer or so...?

Regards,
Moritz

Jagged · 2003-10-15 14:28:50

write yourself a script like:

#!/bin/sh

#ALSA module-loading script
modprobe snd-audigy #or whatever

#eof

#!/bin/sh

#ALSA module unloading
lsmod | awk `{print $1;}` | grep snd | xargs rmmod

#eof

off-topic:
It's sad when i tried to post this by pressing ESC :wq

famavolat · 2003-10-15 14:47:23

off-topic:
It's sad when i tried to post this by pressing ESC :wq

lol nice.

Xentac · 2003-10-15 16:26:53

Problem with loading those drivers with modules with something like modules.conf (or a silly little bash script) is that you won't get your old mixer settings... everything will be off and muted. You can use modules.conf to run scripts (I'm pretty sure...) to load your old settings if you really want to, but I figured that most systems wouldn't take much of a hit to have sound modules loaded all the time...

Moritz · 2003-10-15 18:07:40

Xentac wrote:

but I figured that most systems wouldn't take much of a hit to have sound modules loaded all the time...

okay... another example: printers, scanners...

@Jagged:
where should I add them?
I've tried to add this to the /etc/modules.devfs:

probeall  /dev/sound  snd-audigy snd mixer...

or better

probeall  /dev/usb/lp0  usb-printer

Xentac · 2003-10-15 20:21:50

Didn't you read that huge note at the top saying that modules.devfs is generated automatically and you shouldn't change it? ;o)

If you check in modules.devfs for examples, it looks like you want to use the alias option, not the probeall option. ie. alias /dev/usb/lp0 usb-printer

marin_linuxer · 2003-10-16 00:43:48

Jagged wrote:

off-topic:
It's sad when i tried to post this by pressing ESC :wq

Hey, try "ESC|^ZZ" ... (That's a SHIFT-ZZ) in Vim, it's the same, but faster!

zen_guerrilla · 2003-10-16 00:53:18

Xentac wrote:

Problem with loading those drivers with modules with something like modules.conf (or a silly little bash script) is that you won't get your old mixer settings... everything will be off and muted.

This could be easily solved by adding these lines in /etc/modules.conf:

post-install snd-emu10k1 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
pre-remove snd-emu10k1 /usr/sbin/alsactl store

Jagged · 2003-10-16 05:04:22

ive known about ZZ... but its hard to break a habit, yes

Moritz · 2003-10-17 07:27:19

I read a littlebit in the alsa-docs and found this:

# ALSA portion
        alias char-major-116 snd
        alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
    # module options should go here

        # OSS/Free portion
        alias char-major-14 soundcore
        alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
    
    # 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

So I added that to my modules.conf

But it only loads the midi devices... don't know why :cry:

Jagged · 2003-10-17 15:19:16

you still need to modprobe snd-emu10k1 (is emu10k1 the driver for audigy??)

and you need to run alsamixer and unmute everyithing

Xentac · 2003-10-17 15:44:56

Yeah, right now you have the aliases set up, but nothing to try to load them. I have an alsa init script kicking around somewhere if you want to look at that... or you could write your own. Those instructions are based off of the assumption that you're running something like redhat or debian that does include an init script.

Moritz · 2003-10-19 10:27:10

snd-emu10k1 is the right module, yeah...

If I try to modprobe it says:
"Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.22/modules.dep"
what should I do?

neri · 2003-10-19 10:35:35

Hi,

Moritz wrote:

snd-emu10k1 is the right module, yeah...
If I try to modprobe it says:
"Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.22/modules.dep"
what should I do?

depmod -a as root should help.

bye neri

Moritz · 2003-10-19 14:47:33

thanks for that.... mordprobe work now

but I ain't got the /dev/sound devices....
lsmod lists:

Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
snd-emu10k1            72484   0  (autoclean)
snd-hwdep               5280   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-pcm                61284   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-page-alloc          6388   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]
snd-timer              14468   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi            13984   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device          4304   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd-util-mem            1392   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec         42136   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1]
snd                    31236   0  (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1 snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec]
nvidia               1629984  11  (autoclean)
smbfs                  38704   1  (autoclean)

But only "admmidi amidi dmmidi midi00" exist at /dev/sound....

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automaticaly loading modules

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