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From: "Christopher M. Giordano" <CGiordano@ids.net>
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Cc: Harry Newton <harry_newton@telinco.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KLD at boot time
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Harry Newton wrote:
> 
> ( 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4.3-RC #0: Wed Mar 28 )
> I was just playing around with putting the support for my Soundblaster
> Live card in modules, when I came across a quirk:
> 
> In /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> snd_emu10k1_load="YES"
> snd_pcm_load="YES"
> 
> ( having removed device pcm from kernel config file ).
> 
> But this doesn't work ! The boot messages give:
> 
>   Preloaded elf module "snd_emu10k1.ko" at 0xc035e0fb
>   link_elf: symbol sndbuf_getbps undefined
>   Preload elf module "snd_pcm.ko" at 0xc035e19c
> 
> Changing the order of the lines in /boot/loader.conf makes no
> difference. However, if I unload the modules by hand at boot time, and
> then explicitly load them in the right order ( pcm then emu10k1 )
> and then boot, there's no problem.


  I experienced similar effects with the Sound Blaster 16 module.
  Try omitting the "snd_pcm_load" line altogether and let the loader
  figure out the dependencies on its own.  That has worked for me.


Chris Giordano
CGiordano@ids.net
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