Comment 21 for bug 14851

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote :

(In reply to comment #20)
> The ALSA library accesses special device files to enable autoloading of
> the ALSA drivers without having to load those modules explicitly.
>
> To autoload sound card drivers, /dev/aloadCx must exist.
> To autoload the sequencer, /dev/aloadSEQ must exist.

Hmm, I did not know that.

Do you recommend that the alsa-base package be modified in order to create
these nodes?

Do you also have to add a udev rules file?