Hi, I have three questions related to installing the alsa sound modules in my potato box. At the moment, the alsa sound modules are loaded into the kernel at boot time. They are not specified in /etc/modules. They are specified in /etc/modules.conf, but this should not cause them to be loaded at boot time, correct? How do I get the alsa sound modules to be loaded on demand, i.e. when an app tries to access /dev/dsp, instead of at boot time.
Second, root has access to the sound devices and to the cdrom device, but users do not. I have tried adding my user to the audio and cdrom groups by appending the name to the audio and cdrom lines in /etc/group. This didn't do the trick, though. What permissions do I need to set to allow users access to audio and the cdrom device? Finally, for some reason, I am having problems mounting cds in the cdrom device. I on occasion get an error that the kernel does not recognize the cdrom device as a block device. This may have something to do with the fact that I installed scsi support and modules and ide-scsi emulation in order to use the cd-rw functionality of the device. however, none of these modules are loaded into the kernel at all, so they should not be causing any conflicts, correct? Of course, thanks in advance. -Anthony.