Loading the OSS modules on the XO

[shivaprasad javali]

Its OK if I need to have root permissions only once right? I can change the
/etc/modules/ once during installation of the activity and need not load the
module every time I run the activity. I am new programming on Linux and
wasnt sure what to change to make the XO load the oss module on startup. So
my plan is if I  know how to make the XO load the  oss modules  I can do
this in a script and run the script during installation of the activity so
that when I launch the activity I would not need root permission.Could you
please tell me how to change /etc/modules to load oss modules on startup?

Thanks
Shivaprasad

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:16:58PM +0530, shivaprasad javali wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >    I am porting a application to the XO. It uses the OSS sound Api's to
> > render sound. I found that the oss modules are not loaded on the xo by
> > default. I was able to load the oss modules by running modprobe
> snd-pcm-oss
> > which created the /dev/dsp and other device files required by the oss
> > modules and was able to run my application on the XO. But the problem is
> > every time I reboot the XO I will have to run the commands and load the
> oss
> > modules.
> >
> >    Is there any way I can tell the XO to always load the oss modules?
> Even
> > if I have a script to run the commands on launching the application these
> > commands would require super user privileges which I wont have when I
> launch
> > the application from the activity bar. Any Ideas?
>
> Without root access, your activity will have difficulty modifying
> /etc/modules to enable autoloading the snd-pcm-oss module at boot.  I am
> unsure if there is any way around this issue unless the deployment scope
> for your activity is a set of machines on which you have root access.
>
> Erik
>
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