Hello!! I installed slackware on my pc today, and i was trying to configure the sound drivers.
When i tried to play a file, ive got a message from xmms, saying i couldnt play the file because of many reasons, including the audio plugin driver was wrong.
I changed the plugin and eveything worked ok.
I can hear music, but i think i have sound modules loaded that are not being used. Id like to use as few sound modules as possible.
Could somebody plz tell me, how do i figure out what a module (from the ones listed by lsmod) is doing? and how do i realize if it useless?

id like to have one only driver working, and i think i have 2, OSS and ALSA, maybe this is bringing some incompatibily
id would also like to know, what the others modules there are for??

many thanks, and sorry for my bad english
bye bye santiago

Welcome to LQ. Please provide more info about the equipment you are using, and the output from
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sorry, here is the output
if everything is ok with the sound, plz tell me, how to know what a module does and if i need it or not
thanks again, good bye

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
02:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 10)


lsmod

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
snd-pcm-oss 36736 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 12376 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
keybdev 1892 0 (unused)
mousedev 4020 1
hid 20868 0 (unused)
usbmouse 1880 0 (unused)
input 3200 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]
uhci 24284 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 17516 0 (unused)
usbcore 59148 1 [hid usbmouse uhci ehci-hcd]
hw_random 2712 0 (unused)
i810_rng 2528 0 (unused)
snd-intel8x0 18304 2
snd-ac97-codec 58556 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 54344 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-timer 13764 1 [snd-pcm]
snd 32772 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore 3396 4 [snd]
snd-page-alloc 4712 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd]
i2c-core 12676 0 (autoclean) (unused)
nvidia 6420736 11
sk98lin 180144 1
pcmcia_core 39172 0
ntfs 51232 3 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 9392 0
agpgart 45508 3

no idea? anybd??