Startup/Login screen resolution & F8 thinks webcam is an audio device...

Raymond C. Rodgers sinful622 at gmail.com
Thu May 8 02:30:45 UTC 2008



Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 07 May 2008 17:58:25 -0400
> "Raymond C. Rodgers" <sinful622 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Fedora fails to recognize my motherboard's built-in 
>>     
>>> audio chipset  (ADI AD1986A) which it normally has no problems with
>>>       
>
> Yep, this burned me as well. If you search the list there
> was a thread a while back about how the stoopid system-config-soundcard
> app builds some files expecting the original soundcard to be index 0
> in some internal table and the stoopid boot sequence initializes
> removable devices before fixed devices, so if the webcam is plugged
> in at boot, it winds up index 0.
>
> Some magic added in /etc/modprobe.conf fixes this. Something like:
>
> alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
> options snd-usb-audio index=1
>
> I saw a recent thread that implies this is finally fixed in fedora 9
> because system-config-soundcard was simply removed (all it ever did
> was screw this stuff up, by not hard coding anything, sound just
> works correctly :-).
>
>   
:-) Thanks for the info, now that you mention it I think I do remember 
browsing through a bit of that thread... Though I didn't pay much 
attention since I wasn't having any problems. Then I just *HAD* to go 
and buy a web cam... what was I thinking... ;-)




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