[Asterisk-Users] sound driver advise needed

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 01:17, andrewg at felinemenace.org wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:48:36PM -0700, Steve Murphy wrote:
> > Hello--
> > 
> [snip]
> > 
> > Trouble is, asterisk only sees the brain-dead interface. How do I
> > exorcise it from the kernel, or at least make the SB the first-priority
> > one?  rmmod didn't seem to do anything. Playing with the Redhat sound 
> > card detection stuff was useless. I've googled around the internet,
> > looking for tidbits, but nothing seems applicable. RedHat 8 Bible wasn't
> > very helpful.  Not much in the kernel source dirs, either, nor in the
> > source for the sound drivers.
> > 
> > Anybody have some experience with this sort of thing? It'd be neat to
> > put together an announcement functionality.
> > 
> > Any advise? Many thanks,
> 
> If you know the name of the module for the other soundcard, you could look 
> under /lib/modules/your_kernel/kernel/driver/sound and rename/move the file
> elsewhere so it doesn't get loaded. At least,  I think that'd work ;)
> 

While that would work, it is not a very good idea. It is better to
understand where and how the module was loaded and configure it to stop
loading. This gives the benefit of not causing headaches later if the
user chooses to use the card again. 

If you want to just not load the driver, remove its entry from
/etc/modules.conf, or possibly some RedHat specific file. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>