[PLUG] Loading sound modules in Slackware-9.1

[Rich Shepard]

  When I look for the modules for the built-in sound support on the MSI
motherboard I find them in /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/ as
ac97.o.gz and ac97_codec.o.gz. However, I cannot load them with 'modprobe'
and they are not loaded during boot (only soundcore shows up with 'lsmod').

  Are they not loaded until needed? Is there a reason why modprobe would
report "Can't locate module
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/ac97.o.gz" when the file is there
and greater than 0 bytes?

Puzzled,

Rich

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