On Sunday 23 September 2001 05:44, Michal Bukovjan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I reported the same (about commenting out the exit 0) twice already, but
> noone seems to care.
> Although the bug is apparent. Strange...
>
> What one has to do to not be ignored on this list?
>
> Michal
>
> John Silva wrote:
> >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:
> >
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Dunno - I've made some bug reports that were immediately acknowledged, others
seem to fall in the bucket, presumably due to workload and/or interest.
This bug seems obvious, because I presume not everyone is using the "default
install", and if you disable the _STARTUP SCRIPT ONLY_ devfsd requirement
alsa works just fine.
Checking http://www.alsa-project.org I find _NO_ reference to a devfsd
_requirement_. The following is all it says on the subject:
> Run the ./snddevices script to create new sound devices in /dev
directory. Skip this step, if you have a kernel with the DEVFS support.
And this is what it has to say on DEVFS:
> DEVFS.
>
> The ALSA driver fully supports the devfs extension. You should add the
following lines to your devfsd.conf file to make things work properly:
>
> Tip: LOOKUP EXECUTE snd /sbin/modprobe snd
> REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
> REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
This seems pretty clear that you should run ./snddevices _IF AND ONLY IF_
devfsd is running.
Unfortunately that won't work here because the startup script _REMOVES_
/dev/snd on shutdown!
Fix the broken startup script and it will work fine.
I have been upgrading from cooker releases since pre-7.2. Never once has an
installation script of the kernel, initscripts, devfsd (which _IS_ installed
but not running) modified my lilo config to add "mount=devfsd".
Requiring devfs given the number of security holes seems questionable, but
then again, this is not targeted as a server platform.
Mandrake: I certainly hope devfsd is _DISABLED_ in the default _SERVER_
installation.
Of course, people are not likely to need sound in a server install, unless
they have audio alerting of process failures <grin>.
-J.
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John P. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
