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On Thursday 18 December 2003 09:48, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:15:08 -0800 (PST), Dorin H <bj93542@yahoo.com> 
said:
> > On another thought, is there a better way to check for
> > the module required by a device/sound card?
>
> The easy way is just to load snd_driver.ko, which does nothing but
> depend on all of the chipset drivers.

That still makes it difficult to determine what actual driver attached to your 
card though :)

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