On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 20:59 -0500, Aaron Gaudio wrote: > Whenever I boot up my laptop, I have /etc/rc.modules manually load the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is this the file you have it in? or is it actually /etc/modprobe.conf? You should not need to manually load any of the modules. The install should have set it up for loading the modules at boot time. > various alsa-oss modules. However, udev does not appear to be getting > events and adding devices (e.g. /dev/dsp) for these. When I manually > run /sbin/udev_start, the appropriate devices get created. > > Is this a udev problem or is it caused by the alsa-oss devices not > registering correctly with hotplug, etc. (or is it something I might be > doing)? It may be because you are doing things manually. Udev is one of the earliest services to start. Mine does everything automagically and everything works. The only changes I had to make to /etc/modprobe.conf was the configurations needed to load ndiswrapper for my wireless adapter.