On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:14:24PM +0200, Free Ekanayaka said > |--==> Wouter Verhelst writes: > > WV> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] > WV> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:51:46AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >>On Oct 13, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Lots of users are reporting that ALSA sound doesn't "just" work when > >>> they install it. The cause of the problem is the fact that discover > >>> loads OSS modules even when ALSA modules are available. This bug cannot > >>> be worked around consistently with policy because discover offers no > >>> mechanism for blacklisting modules other than editing a conffile. The > >>> bug report against discover1 (#220616) has been tagged "wontfix" so I am > >>> not expecting the discover maintainers to solve the problem. > >>Discover should not try to load drivers for PCI devices AT ALL, we have > >>hotplug for this. > > WV> The reverse could be (and has been, on multiple occasions) said about > WV> hotplug. > > I thought hotplug was dealing with hot plugging devices (pcmcia, usb, > etc.)
PCI (on special motherboards) is hotpluggable :-) -rob -- Words of the day: CBNRC Glock SCUD missile Janet Reno clandestine NASA ASIO