Re: [Alsa-user] audigy NX 2 alsa and fedora C1

[Lee R. <rlr...@jo...>]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 11:29, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> François Patte wrote:
> > I can "see" my sound card with lsusb:
> >
> > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 041e:3020 Creative Technology, Ltd
> >
> > But  cat /proc/asound/cards replies:
> >
> > --- no soundcards ---
> >
> > lsmod | grep snd gives:
> >
> > snd-usb-audio          60192   0  (unused)
> > ...
> > and the audio modules is also installed.
> 
> The audio module is the kernel's oss driver which conflicts with the
> ALSA driver.  Don't load it.
> 

This seems to be the second most common source of problems (#1 being
mixer issues): conflicts between ALSA and OSS drivers.

Would it be feasible to have the ALSA drivers detect if there is an OSS
module loaded, and complain loudly?  Then at least it will show up in
dmesg.

Lee