Bug 1886 – rc.sysinit and sound modules

Bug 1886 - rc.sysinit and sound modules

Summary:	rc.sysinit and sound modules

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-03-30 10:51 EST by rebel
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-03-30 11:17:52 EST
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Description rebel 1999-03-30 10:51:37 EST

Sound modules are inserted with no (autoclean) set when in
the rc.sysinit is called "modprobe sound". I think it is not
neccessary to do this.
[The rhsound package can use /dev/sndstat to decide if the
sound is present or not.]

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-30 11:17:59 EST

It's on purpose to load modules without autoclean
set. Because the DMA in ISA sound cards requires buffers
located below the 16MB mark, unloading and loading the
sound modules a lot can cause them not to work because
they can't allocate the DMA buffers.

(Also, since /dev/sndstat isn't 'functional' until the drivers
are loaded, it can't be used to determine the presence of
sound.)

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