dear Bruce, thanks for hinting about alsactl, I suspect checking the dependencies of this package may make the life easier to a number of people installing Devuan without using the desktop task.
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, Bruce Perens wrote: > And the solution is: run alsactl init. > Does any package install script try to run it? it is called by the sysvinit script of the 'alsa-utils' package Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.1.6-1 Priority: optional Section: sound Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers <[email protected]> Installed-Size: 2,170 kB Provides: audio-mixer Depends: kmod (>= 17-1~), lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), whiptail | dialog, libasound2 (>= 1.1.1), libc6 (>= 2.27), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.5), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libsamplerate0 (>= 0.1.7), libtinfo6 (>= 6) Homepage: https://www.alsa-project.org/ Tag: admin::configuring, admin::hardware, admin::kernel, devel::lang:c, devel::library, implemented-in::c, interface::text-mode, role::devel-lib, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::configuring, works-with::audio Download-Size: 1,052 kB APT-Manual-Installed: no APT-Sources: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main amd64 Packages Description: Utilities for configuring and using ALSA among the reverse dependencies, I see as relevant: task-desktop,alsa-utils libasound2-data,alsa-utils which should bring it in, somehow. I think it is a good idea to elevate the priority of alsa-utils from 'optional' to something more apt for its role. ciao _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
