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- >>>>> "Adam" == Adam J Thornton <adam@tucson.princeton.edu> writes:
- In article <4quqc4$2ot@cnn.Princeton.EDU> adam@tucson.princeton.edu (Adam J. Thornton) writes:
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- Adam> If you have sound support built as a module, and you're
- Adam> running kerneld to demand-load modules, Executor will come
- Adam> up only with "pretend" sound unless the sound module is
- Adam> already loaded.
-
- Hmmm... that's not good.
-
- Adam> I suspect there's a check that asks "is sound available"?
- Adam> Instead, it might be better to try to play a sound--say the
- Adam> "machine on bong"--and see if that succeded. If it did,
- Adam> then you have sound, if not then you don't. That gives
- Adam> kerneld a chance to load the sound module into kernel space
- Adam> if it can.
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- But we don't do that. We open /dev/dsp and then make ioctls and if
- any of them fail we decide you don't have sound. From my perspective
- it looks like there's a problem with demand-loading sound.
-
- I will not be able to take a look at this until after E2 is out, but
- anyone who is real curious could probably use the system call tracing
- program (strace?) and see where the failure is happening.
-
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- --Cliff
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