/var/log/messages error

[Marc Williams]

On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 08:53, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 08:15:13 -0600, Marc Williams wrote:
> 
> > (If this gets posted twice, sorry about that)
> > I think I've figured out what is causing the following error in my
> > messages file:
> > 
> > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
> > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
> > 
> > I just can't figure out why. 
> 
> Some program has probed your audio devices which in turn triggered the

I think that would be the Flash plugin.



> kernel module system to look for driver modules. If your primary audio
> chipset is configured and working fine and if you don't have a second
> audio chipset which you could enable, switch off above warnings with the
> following entries in /etc/modules.conf:
> 
>   alias sound-slot-1 off
>   alias sound-service-1-0 off

That works great!  Thanks for the tip.  Now Macromedia needs to fix
their plugin, I guess.