[Alsa-user] Fwd: modules insertion ok, other issues arising

[dp <dad...@ya...>]

Resolved the sound problem: I'm quite idiot. I pushed up volume controls in 
alsamixer, that's true. But I didn't turned them on first! I don't know who 
is more stupid: me, or alsamixer. I thought that it was implicit that if i 
change a volume control, the output related to that control should be active! 
However, 2 of the 3 questions exposed remains. Why must I load the modules 
every time, and how could I avoid that? Why must I turn up and set up 
alsamixer every time, and how could I avoid that? 


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Subject: modules insertion ok, other issues arising
Date: Friday 02 July 2004 15:29
From: dp <dad...@ya...>
To: als...@li...

Finally i resolved my tedious problem with OSS (I'm still asking myself why
 it comes for default in many distributions and hasn't been kiked out).
I asked a modinfo sound, hoping it would have inspired me (also if i've done
it a hundred of times...). I seen where the sound module was hiding, I went
here (lib/modules/ecc..../kernel/drivers/sound/sound.o), cut sound.o and
copied on my desktop. Now I was hiding it to the os, not viceversa.
I rebooted. "Error while initializing the sound driver" welcomed me. Perfect.
I commanded, not without a little emotive overload, all modprobes necessary:
one after another, the modules were successfully inserted!!!
Nothing was working, yet. Only alsamixer. I setted "sound system" to alsa in
the kde control center; no sound was working. I rebooted (don't ask me why).
At startup, again:

Informativo - Messaggio di aRts
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (No such device)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

Obviously, no sound was working.
Alsamixer failed.
I modprobed again the modules, and tried again to start alsamixer: after
modprobe, it was working. I pushed up all volume controls, but no sound was
working. I setted xmms to alsa output, but I couldn't hear anything (also if
xmms was apparently working right). In kde control center, the sound demo
button didn't output anything.
I rebooted for the third time.
For the third time, sound server displayed the error message.
For the third time, alsamixer failed.
For the third time, alsa modules weren't inserted, and I modprobed them
 again, then turned up alsamixer controls.
For the n-th time, I don't know what to do with my alsa, and ask help here.
Is there a way to automatically load the modules at startup?? Is there a way
to automatically turn on alsamixer's controls at startup?? And, more
importand, how can I use alsa, after it has been loaded and turned on??
Thanks!

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