Gerald D. Neale on Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:44:58 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] linux sound options


--- Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com> wrote:
> William Shank wrote:
> > 
> > here is the result of my lsmod: there seem to be a
> lot of sound modules
> > loading:
> > anyone know how to analyze this?
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> 
> Looks to me like the way ALSA loads sound modules...
>  ALSA tends to have
> a driver module (probably snd-ens1371 or
> snd-card-ens1371 in your case)
> and a bunch of related higher-level support modules,
> plus the core stuff
> like snd and soundcore.
> 
> If it works and fails, I'd verify IRQ settings and
> then go after ALSA to
> see if it's the latest driver or if there are any
> known problems in that
> driver.
> 
> >
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------------
> > 
> > Module                  Size  Used by
> > snd-pcm-oss            18720   0  (autoclean)
> > snd-pcm-plugin         15024   0  (autoclean)
> [snd-pcm-oss]
> > snd-mixer-oss           5120   0  (autoclean)
> [snd-pcm-oss]
> > r128                   88800   1
> > agpgart                22720   3  (autoclean)
> > snd-card-ens1371        2224   0
> > snd-ens1371            10528   0 
> [snd-card-ens1371]
> > snd-pcm                31808   0  [snd-pcm-oss
> snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371]
> > snd-timer               9360   0  [snd-pcm]
> > snd-rawmidi            10176   0  [snd-ens1371]
> > snd-seq-device          4032   0  [snd-rawmidi]
> > snd-ac97-codec         25088   0  [snd-ens1371]
> > snd-mixer              24576   0  [snd-mixer-oss
> snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec]
> > snd                    34512   1  [snd-pcm-oss
> snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss
> > snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer
> snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device
> > snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer]
> > soundcore               3760   5  [snd]
> > autofs                 10960   1  (autoclean)
> > parport_pc             18576   2  (autoclean)
> > lp                      5296   0  (autoclean)
> > parport                25056   2  (autoclean)
> [parport_pc lp]
> > mousedev                4160   0  (unused)
> > hid                    11728   0  (unused)
> > input                   3328   0  [mousedev hid]
> > usb-uhci               23040   0  (unused)
> > usbcore                48944   1  [hid usb-uhci]
> > nfsd                   68144   0  (autoclean)
> > ipv6                  157792  -1  (autoclean)
> > 3c59x                  25088   1  (autoclean)
> > ipchains               35424   0  (unused)
> > reiserfs              157200   6
> > 
> 
> 
> 
Here's my lsmod. I use the same Ensoniq PCI card but
with RH7.1. I believe I'm using the same ALSA driver
referred above. But notice I only have 2-3 references
to sound modules. I think Kevin has many more than
that, possibly too many.

[jesran@cg420457-c jesran]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
es1371                 25968   1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec              8800   0 (autoclean) [es1371]
soundcore               4464   4 (autoclean) [es1371]
sr_mod                 15264   0 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1           2880   1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437               4384   1 (autoclean)
vfat                    9392   1 (autoclean)
fat                    32672   0 (autoclean) [vfat]
3c59x                  25344   1 (autoclean)
ipchains               38976   0 (unused)
ide-scsi                8352   0
scsi_mod               95104   2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd                 26848   0
cdrom                  27232   0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
usb-uhci               20720   0 (unused)
usbcore                49664   1 [usb-uhci]


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