Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 21232
modutils-2.3.20-0.6.2.1 breaks sound on RH 6.2
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:29:59 EDT
After upgrading to modutils-2.3.20-0.6.2.1.i386.rpm (following RedHat Advisory [RHSA-2000:108-03]) I get the error | Nov 21 19:04:33 moltke rc.sysinit: Finding module dependencies succeeded | Nov 21 19:04:33 moltke modprobe: Using /lib/modules/2.2.18-21/misc/sound.o | Nov 21 19:04:33 moltke modprobe: insmod: a module named sound already exists | Nov 21 19:04:33 moltke rc.sysinit: Loading sound module (sb) failed | Nov 21 19:04:33 moltke modprobe: insmod: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.18-21/misc/sound.o failed | Nov 21 19:04:33 moltke modprobe: insmod: insmod sb failed "/etc/modules.conf" reads: | alias sound sb | pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1 | options sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=0 mpu_io=0x300 -Frank Elsner
Long time ago I've already changed /etc/conf.modules -> /etc/modules.conf in "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. -Frank Elsner
*** Bug 21240 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
------- Additional comments from msw@redhat.com 2000-11-22 06:22 ------- Are you sure you had the latest modutils package for the errata? It looks like the broken modutils package moved /etc/conf.modules to /etc/modules.conf, then when you upgraded to the fixed modutils package things didn't get moved back. ---------- If I (jdbeyer@exit109.com) am supposed to answer this (bug 21240), I am unaware that file /etc/modules.conf ever existed on my machine. Here is my entire /etc/conf.modules as it is now, in case it matters: valinux:root[/etc]# cat conf.modules alias scsi_hostadapter ncr53c8xx alias eth0 eepro100 alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 alias sound sb pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330 valinux:root[/etc]#
The change from /etc/conf.modules to /etc/modules.conf in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit was necessary (at least for me) for after upgrade from RK 6.0 to RH 6.2 as suggested by a warning message from "depmod -a". I just took a look into the source of "modutils-2.3.20-0.6.2.1" and found #define ETC_MODULES_CONF "/etc/modules.conf" "man depmod" says: | FILES | /etc/modules.conf (alternatively but deprecated /etc/modules.conf) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ But "man modprobe" tells me: | FILES | /etc/modules.conf, (alternatively but deprecated: /etc/conf.modules) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Just to complete the overall confusion :-) -Frank
Fix: change the 'alias sound' in /etc/<whatever you're using> to 'alias sound-slot-0'.
Resolved for me: RealAudio now works for me. Thank you.
For me too, thanks for the fix. But you should tell /usr/sbin/sndconfig not to generate such sound related lines as in /etc/modules.conf, which made the discussion and fix appear. Sideeffect: I learned to handle bugzilla. -Frank
*** Bug 21640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***