Re: Sound 2.6.19: Soundcard driver often fail to load?

[Veronique & Vincent <vinctre@videotron.ca>]

Le vendredi 23 février 2007, vous avez écrit :
> At Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:50:48 -0500,
> Veronique & Vincent wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm currently running a 2.6.19 kernel and 2 times out of 3 the sound driver fails to load hence probing me a no sound device available in KDE.
> > ....
> > Could the snd-usb-audio interfere with the on-board sound driver?
> 
> Yes, if you set index=0 module option to snd-intel8x0 driver and
> nothing to snd-usb-audio, they may conflict according to the order of
> loaded modules.  Pass index=1 (or index=-2) to snd-usb-audio module
> option to make the index order consistent.
> 

Now there is a bug opened up at redhat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229227

I've ran into this info:
http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/PWC/FrequentlyAskedQuestionsPWC#modprobe_fails_with_FATAL_Error
and did removed the index=X line associated with the pwc driver.  This still create a problem from time to time.

Seems like the index=X option is broken in the alsa driver (or maybie deprecated, remove, buggy, duno?). There is another way to fix the problem by using a /etc/asound.conf file (see http://alsa.opensrc.org/FAQ026) and removing the index=X entries from your mdoprobe.conf file

Maybie the Fedora team should use the asound.conf configuration instead?

> Takashi

thnx!

- vin