2004-10-15 22:20:24

by Bill Nottingham

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Subject: ALSA registering controlC0 with no actual card available

ALSA registers controlC0 for the first card when there is
no card actually available - why?

Bill


2004-10-16 06:19:04

by Jaroslav Kysela

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Subject: Re: ALSA registering controlC0 with no actual card available

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> ALSA registers controlC0 for the first card when there is
> no card actually available - why?

It's used for generating an automatic request to load ALSA modules using
request_module("snd-card-#").

Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <[email protected]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs