FC5 ISA Soundcard not working any more

[antonio montagnani]

2006/4/3, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>:
> antonio montagnani wrote:
> >
> > I refer directly to my sound card in the install/remove lines,
> > therefore I assume (not sure) that the alias line is not necessary.
> >
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> >
>
> I'm not sure if the alias is needed. I would assume that the programs
> would rely on an alias for conformity instead of each program needing to
> reference a particular soundcard by its driver name.
>
> Back in the ISA days for me, I used to compile a kernel with Ethernet
> and sound in the kernel. Maybe since preloading modules within the
> initrd is possible now, running /sbin/mkinitrd --preload=snd-sbawe
> /boot/<kernelversion>w-sound.img would load the sound driver on boot.
> I'm getting experimental here so hopefully someone could answer with
> practical advice.
>
> Jim
>
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please read bug 178998 in bugzilla: no solution at the moment but comment #30
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