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> > Quoting Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I do not know if it specific in 2.6 or just newer ALSA - but now (in 2.6) no > > > > /proc/asound/dev is created. It does not matter for devfs case because it > > stil creates /dev/snd/... as before. But for non-devfs case initscript > > assumes that no ALSA should be loaded if /proc/asound/dev does not exist. > > Even worse - for 2.4 script wipes out /dev/snd and links it to > > /proc/asound/dev, thus leaving bogus links when we boot 2.6. So even fixing > > > > script and manually creating /dev/snd/* filew will last until next time 2.4 > > > > is booted. > > > > I have no idea how to solve it; anyone with better ALSA knowledge out > > there? > > actually just found this ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/2.4-patches/ > and i'll try to merge it in 2.4. > you might want to make a forward port of > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/2.4-patches/alsa-zx-proc-devs.dif.gz > adding device files on procfs, which was removed from > the recent ALSA release > why would you need that? The original problem is incompatiblility between old (2.4 kernel) and new (2.6 kernel) ALSA. If you include new ALSA in 2.4, incompatibility goes away and problem is solved. Adding backward support for /proc again just reintroduce the problem. -andrey
