On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:34 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:07:40PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: > > I just installed Gnome-Volume-Manager (and also got udev, dbus etc.), > > and now some things aren't working any more. > > > > 1) My sound card doesn't work. When executing "/etc/init.d/alsa start" > > I only get this error message: > > Error: alsactl restore failed with message 'alsactl: load_state:1134: > > No soundcards found...' > > > > I don't have any /dev/snd*. Is this a udev problem?? > > Seems like the alsa drivers for your card aren't loaded. udev will only create > devices if they are there in kernel space. > Ok. I don't have time to look at this now, so in the mean time I'll just use the (kind of ugly) workaround found here: http://www.charlug.org/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&func=view&catid=11&id=136
It isn't nice, but Whopi! I got sound now! :) > > 2) I can't access my CD drive anymore. I've been using SCSI emulation > > until now, but I've also tried ide_cd. But I never seem to get any > > /dev/hdb or /dev/scd. Is this also a udev problem? > > You shouldn't be using ide-scsi with 2.6.x kernels anymore in general. Again > udev will only create devices that are actually there. Maybe you still have > the > ide-scsi=hdc in the kernel cmdline (or something like that), iirc that will > cause ide-cd not to touch that drive and leave it for ide-scsi. > Yes, that was it. When removing it from lilo.conf, I got my CD back. I still have to mount it manually though. > > 3) This might not be a real problem, but I thought that g-v-m would > > automagically mount everything that I would throw at my laptop. But if > > I insert a CF card, nothing happends ( I can see in the logs that > > /dev/hdc is created). Isn't g-v-m supposed to mount the card and pop > > up a nautilus? > > Unfortunately almost everything. Hal doesn't poll ide-cs drivers for media > changes because of problems with the kernel ide-cs driver. Apperently it will > give you an endless stream of hotplug events if you do that :(. As a result > ide-cs drivers aren't supported by gvm. I don't know the exact details and > i don't have such a device, so i can't debug/fix that.. > Ok, thanks for the info! /Anders
