I'm runnnig FC 2 FINAL on my Ispiron 8200 laptop. I'm using the ALSA drivers that came with the kernel. My soundcard is a 82801CA/CAM AC'97 and ALSA is using the snd-intel8x0 module. But something is rather strange it takes quite a while to intialize the sound if I test it (in detect soundcard) or try to play video file with mplayer. But when running it works great. My modprobe.conf looks like this

alias eth0 3c59x
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
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
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias scsi_hostadapter sbp2
alias char-major-195* nvidia
alias /dev/ttySHSF[0-9]* /dev/ttySHSF
alias /dev/modem /dev/ttySHSF
alias char-major-240 /dev/ttySHSF
alias char-major-240-* /dev/ttySHSF
options hsfserial serialmajor=240
alias char-major-242 hsfosspec
alias char-major-242-* hsfosspec
alias /dev/hsfdiag hsfosspec
alias /dev/hsfdiag* /dev/hsfdiag
alias char-major-243 /dev/hsfdiag
alias char-major-243-* /dev/hsfdiag
options hsfosspec dcpmajor=242 diagmajor=243
install /dev/ttySHSF /sbin/modprobe hsfpcibasic2; /sbin/modprobe hsfmc97ich; /sbin/modprobe hsfmc97via; /sbin/modprobe hsfmc97ali; /bin/true

Why does it do that?

Kind Regards

André Fettouhi