Hello, I have a problem on my laptop that may affect a lot of other laptop users now that ALSA is the default sound driver.
During the boot procedure just after the pcmcia module is loaded hotplug is launched. I'm not sure why because there is not any explicit command in the scripts but I assume it's automatic when the pcmcia module is loaded. Until now everything is fine: it tries to coldplug my pcmcia network card and it succeeds. The problem is that it also coldplug *all* my pci devices. This is a bit weird because I allready have normal scripts to do load the modules for those devices. The main problem is with alsa because when the alsa script try to start alsa it detect it as already loaded and directly stop without doing any post loading operations. Therefore the mixer settings are not restored and I can't hear any sound until I launch a mixer and set the volume by hand. The problem may even be worth sometimes when hotplug try first to load the oss module before the alsa module => no alsa sound available => no sound in kde. So what should I do? It seems stupid to put in blacklist all my pci cards (even if it's what I've done so far). Should I consider the coldpluging as the 'right way' to do load the module and try to port all the clever things done in the rc scripts to hotplug? Eric
