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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/Introduction b/Documentation/sound/Introduction index 0e9bbc865..2ab4867d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/Introduction +++ b/Documentation/sound/Introduction @@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ History: added info on multiple sound cards of similar types,] added more diagnostics info, added info about esd. added info on OSS and ALSA. - +1.1.1 19991031 Added notes on sound-slot- and sound-service. + (Alan Cox) Modular Sound Drivers: ====================== @@ -321,6 +322,12 @@ in the Sound-HOWTO). 7) Turn on debug in drivers/sound/sound_config.h (DEB, DDB, MDB). +8) If the system reports insuffcient DMA memory then you may want to + load sound with the "dmabufs=1" option. Or in /etc/conf.modules add + + preinstall sound dmabufs=1 + + This makes the sound system allocate its buffers and hang onto them. Configuring Sound: ================== @@ -335,7 +342,7 @@ There are several ways of configuring your sound: 3) In /etc/modules.conf when using modprobe. -4) Via Red Hat's /usr/sbin/sndconfig program (text based). +4) Via Red Hat's GPL'd /usr/sbin/sndconfig program (text based). 5) Via the OSS soundconf program (with the commercial version of the OSS driver. @@ -344,6 +351,28 @@ And I am sure, several other ways. Anyone want to write a linuxconf module for configuring sound? +Module Loading: +=============== + +When a sound card is first referenced and sound is modular the sound system +will ask for the sound devices to be loaded. Initially it requests that +the driver for the sound system is loaded. It then wwill ask for +sound-slot-0, where 0 is the first sound card. (sound-slot-1 the second and +so on). Thus you can do + +alias sound-slot-0 sb + +To load a soundblaster at this point. If the slot loading does not provide +the desired device - for example a soundblaster does not directly provide +a midi synth in all cases then it will request "sound-service-0-n" where n +is + +0 Mixer + +2 MIDI + +3, 4 DSP audio + For More Information (RTFM): ============================ @@ -373,6 +402,3 @@ For More Information (RTFM): Contact Information: ==================== Wade Hampton: (whampton@staffnet.com) - - - |