* Charles G Montgomery [090502 13:04 -0400] > Thanks for your quick response. > > On Saturday 02 May 2009, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > The symlink /dev/snd is dangling. > > > > Seems to be crufted from old installs. > > [...] > > > ~ [502]$ file /dev/snd > > > /dev/snd: broken symbolic link to `/proc/asound/dev' > > > > Try to delete that link, reboot and test again. > > [...] > > > I tried that, with no joy.
Hmm, what is the output of: # grep -ri "dev\/snd" /etc/udev/* > > > > --- Begin /proc/asound/version --- > > > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16. > > > --- End /proc/asound/version --- > > > > Please update to at least the lenny version. > > > I purged and then reinstalled alsa-base, alsa-utils, and > linux-sound-base, and nothing changed. Perhaps I need to do the > same with libasound2? Or some other package? I have trouble > figuring out what populates /proc/asound/version. As supposed in /proc/asound/version, the _driver_ version is mentioned. # apt-get install alsa-source Follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.Debian for installing drivers of version 1.0.19. The drivers are either distributed by the kernel or are provided by compiling them as described in README.Debian. Elimar -- Excellent day for drinking heavily. Spike the office water cooler;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
