Arch Linux

Description:

I would like to suggest that we add "options snd-pcsp index=2" to /etc/modprobe.conf. This would result in a "real" soundcard to be loaded as the default and snd_pcsp being loaded as a secondary sound card.

Right now, in most causes snd_pcsp loads before the "real" soundcard does.

I recently helped someone on IRC with a fresh install of arch who could not get their sound working. It ended up that snd_pcsp was loaded. This would be hard for someone to figure out. Searching would turn up hundreds of results that would more than likely not solve the problem as someone would probably search along the terms of "sound not working linux."

I believe this is the best solution. I hope we can make an exception to rule of not including any rules in /etc/modprobe.conf. The other solutions would be to blacklist snd_pcsp by default or to not compile the module into the kernel.

From the kernel docs in regards to the snd_pcsp module:

WARNING: if you already have a soundcard, enabling this
driver may lead to a problem. Namely, it may get loaded
before the other sound driver of yours, making the
pc-speaker a default sound device. Which is likely not
what you want. To make this driver play nicely with other
sound driver, you can add this into your /etc/modprobe.conf:
options snd-pcsp index=2