On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 12:53 -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:30:47 +0200, Thomas Hood 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. > > Well, no. Now discover1 (as yet unreleased) has support for an > /etc/discover.d dir where you can have something akin to > /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/alsa-base. Of course, once that discover1 upload > is made, the bug goes to the ALSA maintainers.
I will add this support to discover2 as well, since it currently suffers from the same problem as discover1 with respect to blacklisting modules. -- Ian Murdock 317-578-8882 (office) http://www.progeny.com/ http://ianmurdock.com/ "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of." --Ogden Nash
