Avoid installing the somewhat broken snd-intel8x0m driver?

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 11:37 -0500, rbrimhall wrote:
> I'm for disabling this module as well. Previously, I have had to
> reinstall alsa modules from source b/c I got tired of having my modem
> (which I don't use) listed as a soundcard under the GNOME volume
> control. There was probably an easier fix but I couldn't get the module
> to blacklist using /etc/hotplu/blacklist.d/

Reiterating something I've stated previously...  The modems that the
snd_intel8x0m driver is for cannot operate without the user space part,
the sl-modem-daemon.  The init.d script for that daemon will load the
appropriate hardware driver module, according to the configuration
you've made for it.  The snd_intel8x0m driver works with some machines,
but not with others.  For these reasons, I believe that the
snd_intel8x0m module should be added to the hotplug blacklist.  Let the
sl-modem-daemon load it if it is the right driver for the particular
computer.