On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 18:19 +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> anybody know how I can disable loading of all sound modules on a system. I
> tried adding 'alias snd off' in /etc/modprobe.conf but that didn't seem to work
>
> I saw that there were a bunch of sound module definitions in
> /etc/modprobe.conf.dist. Should I comment them out ?
>
> This is what I have in my /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> alias snd off
> #alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> #options snd-card-0 index=0
> #install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> #remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
>
> relevant output from /sbin/lsmod
>
> snd_intel8x0 33769 0
> snd_ac97_codec 63889 1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_pcm_oss 49017 0
> snd_mixer_oss 17985 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm 96841 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer 29893 1 snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc 9673 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_rawmidi 26597 1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device 8137 1 snd_rawmidi
> snd 55461 9
> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore 9889 1 snd
>
> Thanks, Yusuf
>
Yusuf
Try "alias snd_intel8x0 off" as well. It looks like that might stop the
loading of the others.
Bob...
