[LAU] Kernel 2.6.39.1

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Tue Jun 7 18:03:47 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 20:01 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 07:45 -0300, Bernardo Barros wrote: 
> > 2011/6/7 mark hadman <markhadman at googlemail.com>:
> > > And if it's already loaded, be sure that the ownership/permissions on
> > > /dev/snd/seq are usable.
> > > This looks like a problem I recently had with udev on Arch Linux:
> > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24362
> > > ____________________________
> > 
> > that's true,mark. but I think it is related to the udev (update
> > 168->171), not the kernel update itself.
> 
> Good evening, everyone!
> 
>         Retrospection
>         
>         My setup is using libasound2 1.0.23-4 from the Debian
>         repositories only, any other ALSA packages could be completely
>         removed, without the need to replace them by dummy packages. I
>         kept this libasound2, also not a dummy package and installed the
>         self build kernel 2.6.39.1.
>         
>         There's e.g. no libasound development package installed.
> 
> One issue already is solved, thank you :).
> 
> $ ls /dev/snd/seq -lh
> crw------- 1 root root 116, 1 Jun  7 16:50 /dev/snd/seq
> 
> Anything else already has permissions set to group 'audio'.
> 
> $ ls /etc/udev/rules.d
> 70-persistent-cd.rules  70-persistent-net.rules  z60_hdparm.rules
> 
> $ su -c gedit
> 
> $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules
> # sound
> #SUBSYSTEM=="sound", GROUP="audio"
> KERNEL=="seq", GROUP="audio", MODE="0660", \
> OPTIONS+="static_node=snd/seq"
> 
> Then I rebooted.
> 
> $ ls /dev/snd/seq -lh
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Jun  7  2011 /dev/snd/seq
> 
> I never tested with SUBSYSTEM=="sound", GROUP="audio", but seemingly
> it's at least not needed for Debian.
> 
> Now there's another issue when starting qjackctl, while jackd isn't
> running:
> 
> 19:25:31.823 Patchbay deactivated.
> 19:25:31.826 Statistics reset.
> 19:25:31.933 ALSA connection change.
> Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
> Cannot connect to server socket
> jack server is not running or cannot be started
> 19:25:31.950 ALSA connection graph change.
> 19:25:35.367 JACK is starting...
> 19:25:35.368 /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -r48000 -p256 -n2 -D -Chw:0 -Phw:0

Oh I see -p256, pardon, I will test 1024 after cooking *hurry to the
kitchen*.

> Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
> Cannot connect to server socket
> jack server is not running or cannot be started
> 19:25:35.418 Could not start JACK. Sorry.
> 
> Running
> 
> $ jackd --sync -Xalsarawmidi -dalsa -r48000 -p1024
> jackdmp 1.9.8
> 
> and then starting qjackctl is ok, btw. the name shown by qjackctl's
> connect window is 'RME AIO_579bcc' :).
> 
> There's still another issue left.
> 
> I need two sound card mixers, envy24control, even if my two TerraTec EWX
> 96/24 cards now should be MIDI interfaces only and much more important
> rather hdspmixer than alsamixer, for the RME HSDSPe AIO.
> 
> $ wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/tools/alsa-tools-1.0.24.1.tar.bz2
> $ tar xjf alsa-tools-1.0.24.1.tar.bz2
> $ cd alsa-tools-1.0.24.1/hdspmixer
> $ ./configure
> [snip]
> configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.
> 
> Not only needed to build those mixers ;).
> 
> There should be /usr/include/alsa and there is
> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.39.1/include/sound.
> 
> I'll try a soft link after cooking. Is this correct, or am I mistaken?
> 
> OT: Is http://nielsmayer.com/envy24control/mudita24-1.0.3.tar.gz or a
> similar mudita version included to alsa-tools or is it an old version? I
> don't know which file shows the version.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ralf 




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