On 11/7/05, Paul W. Abrahams
In fact I do have a problem with loading the sound problems -- or even with using Yast to configure the soundcard. Yast indicates the following sound cards (under Hardware/Sound):
Number Card Model SIS S17012 Not configured Sound Controller
If I try to edit the first card, Yast simply returns me to the main screen. If I try to delete it, nothing happens. If I try to edit the second card, I get an error.
So how can I set Yast on the path to goodness and righteousness? And after I've done that, how can I force autoloading of the necessary modules?
More generally, if a module isn't getting loaded on startup, how should I specify that it should be loaded? I could always insert explicit modprobe commands into a startup file, but that seems to me to be a dirty way of solving the problem. Somewhere there ought to be a list of modules that I could add to.
And by the way, I've done alsaconf many times. It seems to work.
Paul
I had this problem with an old ISA sound card in one box. YaST failed to configure this. There is a bug report on opensuse.org, but it is not fixed yet. Anyway, based on a post on this list, I tried alsaconf, and it did configure the card. It'll ask if you want the appropriate entries in modprobe.d to be created. Say yes. It created for me: 1. /etc/modprobe.d/sound : alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16 alias sound-slot-0 snd-sb16 options snd-sb16 isapnp=0 2. /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg- (note it ends up with the dash): MODULE='snd-sb16' STARTMODE='auto' Rename hwcfg- to hwcfg-static-xxxx, where xxxx is whatever you want, in my case I named it sb16, so now i had the file: /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-static-sb16 The coldplug system will load any module, which is in hwcfg-static-xxxxx files under /etc/sysconfig/hardware. This solved the problem for me, now the module is loaded on startup and I have sound. Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)