> I'm a bit confused about the rest of your comment. > The only file called devfs is a directory which has > two subdirectories, neither of which seems to have > anything interesting in it (one is empty). And I > can't find a file called snddevices anywhere, but > might have mistyped (I'm not currently on the Linux > machine and can't get to it to check up).
In the alsa-driver package (alsa-project.org) there's a script named snddevices. It's in the root path of that tarball. Basically it creates the devices your drivers/applications need to access to do sound. Many distros set this up for you if you install the needed packages. But assuming a more basic LFS approach, you need to set them up yourself. You seem to be missing those devices. Hence the snd_ctl_open error. ls -al /dev/* | grep -i "audio" | wc -l 23 lsmod | grep -i "snd" | wc -l 21 That's what mine lists. Various /dev/ devices. /dev/mixer* /dev/sequencer* /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* If devfs or udev didn't create these for you, then you're left with the old mknod methods. Which the script alsa-driver/snddevices uses to create the devices. pgrep udev pgrep devfs (if you don't get a pid number, then it's not running) Otherwise you may just need to: apt-get install alsa alsa-base (and various other alsa* packages.) Or run the snddevices script. find / -iname '*snddevice*' HTH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
