When my new 2.6.0-test8 kernel boots, alsasound generates several messages about attempting to load modules already present in the kernel. Specifically, snd_ens1371, snd_seq_oss, and snd_seq_midi. I noticed please root # modprobe -l | grep "snd.*oss" | sed -e "s:\/.*\/::" -e "s:\..*::" snd-seq-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss please root # cut -d"," -f1 /proc/asound/seq/drivers snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss So, snd-seq-oss at least shows up in both ${DRIVERS} and ${SEQUENCERS} which would certainly explain why it is being loaded twice. I don't know why snd-ens1371 and snd-seq-midi also are getting loaded twice. This is not a big problem at all of course, soudn still works fine, but it's nice to have a clean boot if possible. :) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. please root # emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r6, 2.6.0-test8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.11 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O2 -ftracer -ffast-math -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/local/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox autoaddcvs fixpackages" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/local/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/ebuilds" SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm cups foomaticdb mad mikmod nls xml2 gdbm slang bonobo ruby libwww motif cdr nptl X 3dnow mmx directfb sse dga opengl xv fbcon kde qt qtmt arts tcltk aalib imlib ncurses readline sdl svga lcms gif jpeg png tiff gd avi mpeg quicktime esd gtk gtk2 -gnome alsa ggi dvd xmms oggvorbis encode pam ssl crypt tcpd mozilla spell truetype xml pdflib plotutils tetex guile perl python libg++ atlas pic berkdb mysql postgres odbc samba gpm zlib java threads"
same problem here it seems that snd_seq_oss make several others modules automagically loaded (among those snd_intel8x0) so that when the script try to load the sound card module, this is already there then snd-seq-oss got modprobed again as described by giggles emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test9) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi gpm jpeg libwww mad gdbm perl python esd cdr X gtk -gnome alsa -3dnow -arts -berkdb crypt cups dvd encode foomaticdb gif gtk2 imlib java -kde -libg++ -mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png -qt -quicktime -readline sdl -slang -spell sse ssl svga tcpd truetype usb xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Created attachment 19972 [details] alsasound quick fix here a quick alsasound fix it works fine on my sustem (alsa 0.9.8, kernel 2.6.0-test9)
This "double loading" might be because in 2.6 series the "autoload kernel modules" is on. This causes all(?) snd_* modules to load when one of them is modprobed. The easiest and prettiest way to fix this is to use "modprobe -q" instead of "modprobe" in init.d/alsasound script. Also the SEQUENCER="..." line in alsasound can be fixed a little bit, but that just adds yet another grep to the bl0ated script. Here's my diff: diff -u -0 /usr2/gentoo/portage/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsasound /etc/init.d/alsasound --- /usr2/gentoo/portage/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsasound 2003-09-16 16:42:38.000000000 +0300 +++ /etc/init.d/alsasound 2003-10-30 21:29:47.000000000 +0200 @@ -72 +72 @@ - /sbin/modprobe ${DRIVER} + /sbin/modprobe -q ${DRIVER} @@ -79 +79 @@ - SEQUENCERS="$(cut -d"," -f1 /proc/asound/seq/drivers)" + SEQUENCERS="$(grep -v loaded /proc/asound/seq/drivers | cut -d"," -f1)" @@ -83 +83 @@ - [ -n "${SEQUENCER}" ] && /sbin/modprobe ${SEQUENCER} + [ -n "${SEQUENCER}" ] && /sbin/modprobe -q ${SEQUENCER} I think that "grep -v loaded..." line is even uglier than before. And it's pretty useless too while using modprobe -q. And what does that -q do? Here's a snippet from man modprobe: -q --quiet Normally modprobe will report an error if you try to remove a module which doesn't isn't in the kernel, or insert a module which is already in the kernel. With this flag, modprobe considers such redundant commands to be fine. As a result, I suggest that we'd use the modprobe -q syntax, since people might or might not be using the module autoload option in 2.6 kernel series.
I'm not sure whether this is related or a separate problem. When I start alsasound (either at boot or default), sound does not work (devfsd does not build /dev/dsp etc.). I have to issue '/etc/init.d/alsasound stop' and then '/etc/init.d/alsasound start' to get sound to work. After the second start, all the /dev/dsp... are generated and the sound card works. If it makes any difference, I'm using the ens1371 module. I'm also using 2.6.0-test8.
is this fixed with latest portage tree ?
I'm gonna modify the init script to check if a module is loaded already before modprobing it.
Ok, I just committed the updated init script... as soon as your portage tree gets it, you can just copy it from portage/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsasound to /etc/init.d/alsasound The change was a [ -z `cut -d' ' -f1 /proc/modules | egrep "^${DRIVER}\$"` ] conditional around the loading (similar for SEQUENCER).
*** Bug 38024 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 14553 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The fixed introduced is not working for me. The next driver to be loded ($DRIVER variable) is checked against loaded modules by listing them. But (at least) in my gentoo the loaded module names have underscores (snd_ens1371) instead of the '-' of the module ko. The drivers to be loaded are obtained by doing a modprobe -c (that return the names with '-' from modules.conf). String compare then falls. I've made the following change to the alsasound script: DRIVER="$(echo ${DRIVER} | sed 's/-/_/g')" if [ ! "${DRIVER}" = off ] && [ -z `cut -d' ' -f1 /proc/modules | egrep "^${DRIVER}\$"` ]; then adding the sed line also in the sequencer modules part.
Created attachment 25213 [details] alsanound Can you please try out this one. I'll commit it as sonn as I get feedback. It adds in a check for ${DRIVER/-/_} as well...
Created attachment 25442 [details] Modified alsasound to handle multiple hyphen/underscore conversions Hi, I tried the attached alsasound, and for my machine it didn't entirely fix the issue. This is because some module names had more than one hyphen/underscore conversion required. I've modified alsasound and reattached it to resolve this issue.
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