On Saturday 22 September 2001 23:42, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> John Silva wrote:
> > On my system, the "alsa" initscript fails to properly start the alsa
> > drivers.
>
> ALSA requires devfs to be mounted if devfs is enabled in kernel.
>
> > 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.
> > Linux tetsuo.farm9.com 2.4.8-24mdksmp #1 SMP Mon Sep 17 13:36:07 CEST
> > 2001
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> You do have devfs you just do not mount it.
>
> This problem was discussed here already.
>
> -andrej
So, to get working sound one needs devfs?
I am happily using alsa *right now* without devfs mounted. So, it seems to
work.
[jsilva@tetsuo updated]$ rpm -qR alsa-utils
kernel >= 2.2.14
alsa-lib >= 0.5.10
/sbin/chkconfig
/sbin/ldconfig
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
ld-linux.so.2
libasound.so.1
libc.so.6
libgpm.so.1
libm.so.6
libncurses.so.5
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
[jsilva@tetsuo updated]$ rpm -qR alsa-lib
kernel >= 2.2.15
/sbin/ldconfig
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
[jsilva@tetsuo updated]$ rpm -qR alsaplayer
kernel >= 2.2.17
alsa-lib >= 0.5.9
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
ld-linux.so.2
libX11.so.6
libXext.so.6
libXi.so.6
libc.so.6
libdl.so.2
libgdk-1.2.so.0
libglib-1.2.so.0
libgmodule-1.2.so.0
libgthread-1.2.so.0
libgtk-1.2.so.0
libm.so.6
libpthread.so.0
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
libasound.so.1
libaudiofile.so.0
libesd.so.0
libmikmod.so.2
libogg.so.0
libvorbis.so.0
libvorbisfile.so.0
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0)
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1)
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0)
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1)
I was not on this list when it was discussed previously. Is there an archive
available so I can see what the discussion was about?
I reported a separate bug where alsactl fails altogether. Is this the same
bug?
Also, if alsa requires devfs, you should put it in the dependencies for the
tools:
--
John P. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
