Joshua Legbandt wrote:
I've tried Arjan's test kernels in the past and discarded
them due to
their inability to work with my wireless pcmcia card, but they all
loaded the sound modules properly on boot. I've installed Arjan's
kernel-2.6.0-0.test9.1.90 kernel which happily works with my pcmcia card
for wireless (which has always worked with vanilla 2.6test kernels), but
the sound modules no longer load on boot. The also appears to happens
with a vanilla 2.6test kernel (2.6-test9-bk17). I can't correlate this
to another other updates that I have done. The modules load properly
with modprobe.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
It looks like latest -bk snapshots try to load module by slightly
different names. If, for example, it tried to load char-major-14 for
mixer device, now it tries to load char-major-14-<minor dev number>.
I fixed this problem by changing in /etc/modprobe.conf
alias char-major-14 soundcore
by
alias char-major-14-* soundcore.
same goes for NVidia drivers, where I had to change
alias char-major-195 nvidia
by
alias char-major-195-* nvidia
HTH
P.S. I hope someone can elaborate on why this behavior changed.
Pavel.