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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> ALSA registers controlC0 for the first card when there is
> no card actually available - why?

It's used for generating an automatic request to load ALSA modules using
request_module("snd-card-#").

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs