On Sunday 23 September 2001 23:03, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > So, to get working sound one needs devfs?
>
> *If* your kernel was compiled with devfs support *then* you need to
> mount devfs to access ALSA namespace. Mandrake kernels are compiled with
> devfs.
>
> > I am happily using alsa *right now* without devfs mounted.
>
> Do you use Mandrake kernel? Do you use ALSA (or you just access sound
> via OSS emulation)? OSS emulation whould work, ALSA-pure not. See my
> another mail.
>
kernel-smp-2.4.8-24mdk
It appears that I *am* using OSS emulation.
> > Also, if alsa requires devfs, you should put it in the dependencies
>
> for
>
> > the
> > tools:
>
> What dependencies and how do you express them? Do you really understand
> what devfs is?
>
I do understand what devfs is - I was thinking of a dependency of the alsa
tools on devfsd.
However, if alsa truly requires /dev/snd/*, then that tree should be created
appropriately in the dev- package, and devfs allowed to mount over that
directory if present.
Would that work better than making /dev/snd a symlink to /proc/asound/dev?
Another possible (although I admit I do not know the difficulty in long-term
maintainence) is to create /dev/snd-alsa with and choose the appropriate
symlink at start time depending on presence/absence of devfsd.
Thanks for taking the time to explain. I will probably implement the above
solution as I am wholly uncomfortable with using devfs on my systems.
> -andrej
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