Too many sound modules ?
 

:scratch: I used Synaptic to change from OSS to ALSA for my sound card under Debian 3.0 on a DELL Inspiron 8500. The reason I changed the drivers is that the sound card stopped working after I installed a wi fi card and read that ALSA was the preferred choice.

My sound card seems to work fine however it seems a lot of modules are being loaded for one sound card. Is the amount of modules displayed below the normal amount of modules ?

eternity:~# uname -r
2.4.25-1-386
eternity:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
snd-pcm-oss 35236 0 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 11192 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-intel8x0m 8900 0
snd-intel8x0 17224 2
snd-ac97-codec 40444 0 [snd-intel8x0m snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 51492 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0m snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 12356 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 5748 0 [snd-intel8x0m snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
gameport 1388 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart 2800 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 11840 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3648 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 27012 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0m snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
hci_usb 6936 0 (unused)
bluez 27236 1 [hci_usb]
af_packet 11624 5 (autoclean)
ndiswrapper 52884 1
soundcore 3268 7 (autoclean) [snd]
input 3040 0 (autoclean)
agpgart 39524 3 (autoclean)
nvidia 1966368 7 (autoclean)
ds 5908 1
yenta_socket 8896 1
pcmcia_core 38784 0 [ds yenta_socket]
uhci 21628 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 14988 0 (unused)
usbcore 53068 1 [hci_usb uhci ehci-hcd]
ide-scsi 8464 0
parport_pc 19400 1 (autoclean)
lp 5952 0 (autoclean)
parport 21800 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
sd_mod 10860 0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod 85408 2 (autoclean) [ide-scsi sd_mod]
vfat 8940 0 (autoclean)
fat 28088 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
nls_cp437 4284 3 (autoclean)
ntfs 45344 3 (autoclean)
ide-cd 27968 0
cdrom 25088 0 [ide-cd]
rtc 6344 0 (autoclean)
ext3 66696 1 (autoclean)
jbd 35076 1 (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect 288 0 (autoclean) (unused)
piix 7528 1 (autoclean)
ide-disk 12512 5 (autoclean)
ide-core 94300 5 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix 13260 206 (autoclean)
eternity:~# lspci
pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
0000:02:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller
0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02)

Lots of sound modules is normal. Count them with

% lsmod | grep snd | wc -l

I have 14!