12076 – snd option in /etc/modules.d/alsa

Bug 12076 - snd option in /etc/modules.d/alsa

Summary: snd option in /etc/modules.d/alsa

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement
Assignee:	Arcady Genkin (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-12-13 03:29 UTC by Steffen Lassahn
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description Steffen Lassahn 2002-12-13 03:29:45 UTC

When alsa is started the alsactl started from /etc/init.d/alsasound tries to set
parameters for 8 sound cards even if there is only one in the system. That
results in modprobe error messages. Alsa works but the startup process looks dirty.

Suggestion:

Add a line to /etc/modules.d/alsa like this:

##  ALSA portion
options snd snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371

I would assume that most of the systems out there have only one soundcard that
is used so 1 should be a reasonable default.

Comment 1 Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-21 00:37:58 UTC

Okay, I fixed this for _rc6.  Thanks for the report.

Comment 2 Baron "Xaprb" Schwartz 2003-02-02 13:50:26 UTC

I think the documentation may be wrong.  It should not be 

options snd snd_cards_limit=1

it should be 

options snd cards_limit=1

this is also true for snd_major, it should just read

major=116