[SOLVED] OSS sound crashes at the cold boot. Why?

[paskali]

Hi all, as in the title, i load at the boot the OSS extension to enable the sound on my notebook; however it has a "crazy" behaviour: at the cold boot it crashes and the sound does not work but if i reboot the sound works so well.
Why?

P.S.
I do not really want to use ALSA, i would want to try to resolve with OSS.

[bmarkus]

P.S.
I do not really want to use ALSA, i would want to try to resolve with OSS.

Why?

[paskali]

Why?

Because i found it more hard to configure, i do not have so time to waste, and because on this notebook i do not have enough resources.

[tinypoodle]

What happens if you remove OSS4 from onboot.lst and then load it after cold boot?

[paskali]

What happens if you remove OSS4 from onboot.lst and then load it after cold boot?

If i do not load OSS on cold boot but after, ondemand, it seems to work well.

[paskali]

Dear friends, thanks for your help but i have solved by myself.
I use a persistent home directory in which there is the .profile startup script.
I have edit this file and below the definition of the ONDEMAND enviroment variable:

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ONDEMAND=/etc/sysconfig/tcedir/ondemand
[ -d "$ONDEMAND" ] && export PATH=$PATH:"$ONDEMAND"

i wrote:

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# Load and enable sound
sleep 3
ondemand -e OSS.tcz &&
sudo soundoff &&
sudo soundon
This solution makes the startup boot process a bit more slow but works fine in the cold boot as well as in warm boot.
I hope this tip can to be usefull.

[gerald_clark]

I think you will find ondemand is already in your path.