21 Mar
2003
21 Mar
'03
5:27 a.m.
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
John Ouzts wrote:
hi, yes thats exactly what i ended up doing... i'm using Mandrake 9.0
and alsa CVS from a few months back (havent had time / havent dared to
upgrade since it was working so nicely!)...
its very important *not* to run snddevices on a devfs machine. from a
clean install of mdk 9.0 i left all the alsa rpms in place (this is
important too. not sure if they do anything settings-wise but if you
remove them you risk killing KDE and the knock-on effect of mangling
X... which is what happened to me, even though i restored all the KDE
rpms...)
the only thing necessary to do is tar up and then remove all the alsa
modules from /lib/modules *except* for soundcore of course. build cvs
and install as normal. *dont* run snddevices.
i hope this will work on all devfs machines... it seems to work well on
mdk 9 on my thinkpad anyhow....
good luck!
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/ \ cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/dsp
*** stopping make sense ***
I have also discovered that kmix appears as a
gray window without any
sliders or labels. Alsamixer shows one slider labelled DAC, which will
adjust. I also got an error message with says: Mixer device /dev/mixer
is missing volume and PCM controls.
Gentoo uses devfsd, so I am wondering if I need to set some devices in
devfsd.conf.
I don't use devfsd (yet) but IIRC you shouldn't run the ./snddevices
script after installing the alsa-driver package. It seems to cause
problems.
Miriam should be able to give more light on this as she recently
conquered the problem.