[Alsa-user] Upgrade of RedHat 7.2 to Alsa

[Jim Z. <jj...@ss...>]

I recently upgraded my RedHat 7.2 installation to Alsa. I have upgraded 
the 7.2's 2.4.7-10 kernel to 2.4.20. The distribution came with the 
O'Reilly book "Learning Red Hat Linux". I installed alsa ver. 0.9.4 and 
I will say up front that it appears to work with my EnS1371 card on a 
Gateway G6-350. i.e. I can run alsamixer, arecord etc. However I'm 
getting some curious error messages in my /var/log/message file upon 
startup and shutdown. The system somehow thinks I have more than one 
sound card. I have only the one.

Here is a portion of /var/log/messages for startup:

Oct 18 08:38:53 zieglerj httpd: httpd startup succeeded
Oct 18 08:38:53 zieglerj alsasound: Starting sound driver: snd-ens1371
Oct 18 08:38:54 zieglerj kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0c.0
Oct 18 08:38:54 zieglerj alsasound: done
Oct 18 08:38:54 zieglerj modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1
Oct 18 08:38:54 zieglerj modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1
Oct 18 08:38:54 zieglerj modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2
Oct 18 08:38:54 zieglerj modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2
Oct 18 08:38:54 zieglerj modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-3
Oct 18 08:38:54 zieglerj modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-3
Oct 18 08:38:54 zieglerj rc: Starting alsasound:  succeeded
Oct 18 08:38:55 zieglerj crond: crond startup succeeded

 On shutdown I get messages to the effect that  modprobe Can't locate 
module snd-card-1 thru snd-card-7

My modules.conf is as follows:
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alias eth0 3c59x
alias usb-controller usb-uhci

# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.3b ---
alias char-major-116 snd cards_limit=1 device_mode=0660
alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371

alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
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
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
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One thing I'm not sure of is whether I removed all the roots of the old 
sound system provided with RH 7.2.
I have tried putting print statements in the alsa startup script but it 
seems to be finding and starting only the proper card. Where would the 
system get the idea to try to load additional modules if not from 
/etc/modules.conf? Thanks for any help.