On my system, the "alsa" initscript fails to properly start the alsa drivers.
According to the script, start() loads the "snd" module and checks for
presense of /proc/asound/dev:
function start() {
found_driver="false"
echo -n "Starting ALSA version $alsa_version:"
# First load the ALSA common driver and check whether devfs properly
# can be available when the working kernel has devfs support.
/sbin/modprobe snd
if [ ! -e /dev/snd ]; then
if [ -d /proc/asound/dev ]; then
# you are using the kernel without devfs so simply create
# symlink
ln -s /proc/asound/dev /dev/snd
else
# you are using the kernel with devfs but disabling devfs.
/sbin/modprobe -r snd
exit 0
fi
fi
For systems with devfs enabled, this is no doubt functional. However, on my
system (no devfs), module "snd" produces the following:
[root@tetsuo proc]# ls /proc/asound
cards devices oss-devices seq/ sndstat version
As you can see, there is no directory called "dev". Consequently, the script
removes snd and exits.
Commenting out the "exit 0" in the code above allows the script to continue
normally and allows alsa to properly load the drivers.
Starting alsa in that manner produces this in /proc/asound:
[root@tetsuo proc]# ls /proc/asound
0@ card1/ cards devices oss-devices pcm seq/ sndstat timers version
As you can see, there is still no /proc/asound/dev. This script can only
fail without devfs running. You may wish to choose an alternate more
functional method of detecting devfs.
-J
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Versions:
Linux tetsuo.farm9.com 2.4.8-24mdksmp #1 SMP Mon Sep 17 13:36:07 CEST 2001
i686 unknown
initscripts-6.27-10mdk
Relevant section of /etc/modules.conf:
# ALSA
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
--
John P. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
