Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8686
Lost soundcard-setup
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:12:11 EDT
To restore the soundcard-setup (volume) the initscripts are looking for an installed sound-module. The loading of this depends on an entry in /etc/conf.modules which is being checked for in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit with: if grep -s -q "^alias sound " /etc/conf.modules ; then But if the /etc/conf.modules file was edited manually, tabulators are often used. Such entries (e.g. "alias sound\t...") will not be detected by your pattern. A better check would be for the regexp '^alias\>[^w]*\<sound\>'
Fixed in initscripts-4.84-1.
Sorry, but in my last posting I have not noticed that aliases for names like "sound-slot-0" are possible. Because I am not sure if all possible entries can be detected by regexp's I suggest to check the normalized output of "modprobe -c": if modprobe -c | grep -s -q '^alias sound '; ... if modprobe -c | grep -s -q '^alias midi '; ...
What it does is 'egrep "^alias[[:space:]]+sound[[:space:]]+" conf.modules | awk '{ print $3 }', and if that alias is not 'off', it loads whatever that is. That should be good enough for now. If we can get rid of the ISA dma issues, we'll drop loading the modules entirely and let kmod do its thing.