knowing when the computer is booted

[Alex Snow]

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this is the case in debian, at least it was in woody. When I ran it I 
had my sound card set up in whereever you put module stuff It slips my 
mind...something like /etc/conf.modules and the modules wouldn't load 
until I palyed a sound or adjusted mixer settings.
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 
at 07:03:23PM -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi
> What's going on here is module autoloading. The way Fedora and probably other redhat-based distributions configure their sound drivers is that they aren't 
> loaded until they are needed. Running aumix to view or change a setting causes the sound drivers to load, as the kernel has detected that in order to 
> access the mixer, the sound drivers must be started. Playing a sound file, or doing anything else with the card for that matter, should trigger the loading of 
> the sound drivers. This is normal behavior for the way fedora configures its sound modules.
> If you really need the sound drivers to be loaded at boot-up, edit the file
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> and add the line
> aumix -q
> This will cause a mixer query and load those sound modules right up, but it will display your mixer settings every time you boot. Generally, the you shouldn't 
> need to do this.
> HTH
> 
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:01:13 -0500, Roy Nickelson wrote:
> 
> >hi,
> >that would work but my sound card doesn't apear to work when linux first
> >starts.  I have to go into aumixer first i don't have to do anything with it
> >just view a setting or something and then the sound card starts working.
> >Sence i have only been using linux for a week or so I have no clue what may
> >be going on.
> 
> 
> 
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