On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, James Pearson wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot > time on CentOS 5? > > Keith Roberts wrote: >> >> Doesn't the kernel probe the machine's hardware at boot up >> time, and if it finds your soundcard, load the appropriate >> driver for it? > > I assume something does probe some how - which is what I trying to work > out. i.e. what exactly does the probe and where in the startup sequence > is this done? Hi James. Good question. I can't say for sure, but I guess it's some sort of h/w detection code in the kernel. This may be of some help: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linuxboot/index.html Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------