Turn off devfs. You probably have a failed link at /dev/snd. or perhaps an unused link at /dev/snd/dev . There is supposed to be a link from /dev/snd to /proce/asound/dev, but it never seems to go right with devfs running.
To turn it off, go into your /etc/lilo.conf and change devfs=mount to devfs=nomount. Then reboot and try doing the alsa stuff again (throw away the bad /dev/snd link too if you have it. Kevin --- Jason Bandlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all. I'm a relative newbie to Linux, and if anyone could help me > with the following problem, I'd really appreciate it. I've been banging > my head against the wall for a couple of days now and I've simply run > out of ideas. Here's the story: > > I was originally using Mandrake 8.1, under which I successfully > installed the Alsa drivers for my SBLive! card, and really enjoyed it. > I started having (unrelated) hard-drive problems, so I installed > Mandrake 8.2 (kernel version: 2.4.18-6mdk) on a new disk. I then > downloaded the source for 0.5.12a driver, the 0.5.10b libs and the > 0.5.10 utils. After unzipping and untarring, I changed to the driver > directory and did > > ./configure --with-sequencer=yes --with-cards=emu10k1 > make > make install > > with no errors. I then did ./configure; make; make install; in the > other directories, again with no errors. I then went back to the > drivers directory and ran ./snddevices > > At his point, I copied the relevant parts of my old /etc/modules.conf > into my current /etc/modules.conf (The relevant parts of that file > are included below). > > Finally I did modprobe snd-card-emu10k1 which again gave no errors. > > However, when I tried running amixer I got the response: > The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. > > Curiously, when I try /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound start I get: > ALSA driver is already running. > > Other possibly useful information: > *********************************************** > > [root@res091081 /]# lsmod | grep snd > snd-pcm-oss 18816 0 (autoclean) > snd-pcm-plugin 16080 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] > snd-mixer-oss 4704 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] > snd-card-emu10k1 2400 0 (autoclean) > snd-emu10k1 22912 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-emu10k1] > snd-rawmidi 10112 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1] > snd-ac97-codec 24896 0 (autoclean) [snd-emu10k1] > snd-mixer 24328 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec] > snd-emux-mem 1424 0 [snd-emu10k1] > snd-pcm 31616 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-emu10k1] > snd-timer 8576 0 [snd-pcm] > snd-seq-device 3948 0 [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] > snd 34272 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin > snd-mixer-oss snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi snd-ac97-codec > snd-mixer snd-emux-mem snd-pcm snd-timer snd-seq-device] > soundcore 4068 5 [snd] > > [root@res091081 /]# cat /etc/modules.conf > > pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start > alias usb-interface usb-uhci > probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi > alias eth0 tulip > # ALSA portion > alias char-major-116 snd > options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 > alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 > # options snd-card-interwave snd_index=0 > > # OSS/Free portion > alias char-major-14 soundcore > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss > > [root@res091081 /]# ls /proc/asound > 0@ card1/ cards devices oss-devices pcm seq/ sndstat timers version > > [root@res091081 /]# cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [card1 ]: EMU10K1 - Sound Blaster Live! > Sound Blaster Live! at 0xd800, irq 11 > > ********************************* > Does anyone have any thoughts on what may have changed between 8.1 and > 8.2 that would be causing this? Or, more particulary, what I need to do > to get things working again? > > Thanks in advance! > > Jason Bandlow > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ===== Kevin Ernste [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.esm.rochester.edu/kevine "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -MLK __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
