On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> In theory, snd-seq should be loaded automatically, and on my computer,
> it does in practice. (But I don't use devfs.)
>
> There should be a file /dev/aloadSEQ which causes snd-seq to be loaded
> when accessed. This file should be create by the snddevices script.
Okay, things are getting interesting, perhaps leaving the scope of this
list. I'd like to ask one more question and maybe find some direction.
I'm running Gentoo Linux 1.4, which requires DevFS. The Gentoo website has
docs on how to get ALSA up and running, but it's geared for more consumer
stuff like listening to recordings or watching movies. There is a breif
mention of /dev/snd/seq but their advice does nothing. They write that
these lines in /etc/devfsd.conf will get all the ALSA stuff running at
boot:
# ALSA/OSS stuff
# Comment/change these if you want to change the permissions on
# the audio devices
LOOKUP snd MODLOAD ACTION snd
LOOKUP dsp MODLOAD
LOOKUP mixer MODLOAD
LOOKUP midi MODLOAD
REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
It does, except for the sequencer. So in my simple minded approach, I just
added snd-seq to /etc/modules.autoload.
This works, but now the later boot script for ALSA, /etc/init.d/alsasound,
fails complaining that ALSA is already loaded. Which it probably is.
And it all comes back to this boot script:
if [ x"$START_ALSA_SEQ" = xyes -a -r /proc/asound/seq/drivers ]; then
t="`cut -d , -f 1 /proc/asound/seq/drivers`"
if [ "x$t" != "x" ]; then
/sbin/modprobe $t
fi
fi
Which isn't starting the sequencer. I guess it's pretty clear that this is
more of a Gentoo problem than an ALSA problem, but I'm posting it to this
list for archive posterity incase others have a similar problem.
So where would I go to deal with this? It seems like an issue that's
burried so deep I can get lost just trying to trace it back to it's
source.
-l[e^2]
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