How do I disable loading of sound modules ?

[Bob Chiodini]

On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 18:19 +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> anybody know how I can disable loading of all sound modules on a system. I
> tried adding 'alias snd off' in /etc/modprobe.conf but that didn't seem to work
> 
> I saw that there were a bunch of sound module definitions in
> /etc/modprobe.conf.dist. Should I comment them out ?
> 
> This is what I have in my /etc/modprobe.conf
> 
> alias snd off
> #alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> #options snd-card-0 index=0
> #install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> #remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> 
> relevant output from /sbin/lsmod
> 
> snd_intel8x0           33769  0 
> snd_ac97_codec         63889  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_pcm_oss            49017  0 
> snd_mixer_oss          17985  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                96841  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              29893  1 snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc          9673  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> snd_mpu401_uart         8769  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_rawmidi            26597  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device          8137  1 snd_rawmidi
> snd                    55461  9
> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore               9889  1 snd
> 
> Thanks, Yusuf
> 
Yusuf

Try "alias snd_intel8x0 off" as well.  It looks like that might stop the
loading of the others.

Bob...