FYI: ISA sound cards no longer supported

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Kam Leo wrote:
> If you are using FC6 or FC7 and have problems with sound your problem
> may be due to the developers removing support for legacy ISA sound
> cards. The driver for the card will no longer be automatically loaded.
> I discovered this after filing this bug report,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234021 .
> 
> If ALSA still supports your card all is not lost. The fix is to
> manually tell the kernel to load the driver. In my case I edited
> /etc/rc.local and appended the following two lines:
> 
> modprobe -r snd-sbawe
> modprobe snd-sbawe
> 
> Change snd-sbawe to whatever is appropriate for your system.
> 
Maybe I am missing something here, but wouldn't it work to edit
/etc/modprobe.conf and add something like: (You would need to run
depmod after making the change.)

alias snd-card-0 snd-sbawe

Also, why are you removing the snd-sbawe module in rc.local?

Mikkel
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