I'm running a Gentoo box (kernel 2.6.28-gentoo-r1) with ALSA (and ALSA OSS emulation) with 2 soundcards. Here is a section from my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias snd-card-1 snd-au8830 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 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 alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss Here is a modprobe command: > modprobe -c | grep snd-card alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias snd-card-1 snd-au8830 alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 alias snd-card-1 snd-au8830 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 and so when /etc/init.d/alsasound gets to line 18 and runs the following command: local DRIVERS="$(modprobe -c | sed -n -e 's/^alias \(snd-card-[[:digit:]]\+\) .*/\1/p')" the command will produce this: snd-card-0 snd-card-1 snd-card-0 snd-card-1 That's fine - alsa will proceed to load the modules for both cards. However, here is a portion of modprobe -l: > modprobe -l | grep snd.*oss kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-mixer-oss.ko kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-pcm-oss.ko So when /etc/init.d/alsasound gets to line 31 and runs the following command: DRIVERS="${DRIVERS} $(modprobe -l | sed -n -e '/snd.*oss/ s:\/.*\/\(.*\).ko:\1:p')" the command will produce this: kernelsnd-mixer-oss kernelsnd-pcm-oss Obviously the sed script has something wrong with it. It should be producing "snd-mixer-oss" and "snd-pcm-oss". Because of the error, /etc/init.d/alsasound will try and fail to load the OSS mixer and pcm modules. Changing the regex from this: /snd.*oss/ s:\/.*\/\(.*\).ko:\1:p to this /snd.*oss/ s:.*/\(.*\).ko:\1:p fixed it for me, but I don't know if that would break things for anyone else.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 258930 ***
