[CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

[Keith Roberts]

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

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