On 25-Apr-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Marco Calistri wrote:
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>> Hello I've installed new kernel 2.4.2 and I'm getting a lot of troubles
>> with sound modules.
[..cut]
>> The problems appear also as hardware problems:
>> [root@linux Sounds]# playmidi exodus.mid
>> Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai
>> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> For details please see the file COPYING.
>> open /dev/sequencer: No such device
>>
>> [root@linux Sounds]# ls -la /dev/seq*
>> crw------- 1 ik5bcu sys 14, 1 mar 24 02:11 /dev/sequencer
>> [root@linux Sounds]# ls -la /dev/ds*
>> crw------- 1 ik5bcu sys 14, 3 mar 24 02:11 /dev/dsp
>> crw------- 1 ik5bcu sys 14, 19 mar 24 02:11 /dev/dsp1
>>
>> Really these devices are present on my system,
>> so I'm unable to figure out where the problem is.
[Note:I didn't received my original message from vger,]
[I only read this reply..strange!]
> I don't know if this is anything to do with it, but new in the 2.4
> kernel is devfs. I think if this is enabled and you do not run devfsd,
> all the devices you were accustomed to having are gone. Well, at least
> they have differnt names. I haven't experimented with misconfiguring it
> to see what happens, I just enabled devfs, added devfsd to the init
> script, configured devfsd, and all is more or less well. All the old
> device names are symbolic links. I think it you simply don't enable
> devfs, all is as it was, but you will have lots of trouble if it is
> enabled and you don't run devfsd.
Hello Lawson,yes it could be a valid reason,actually devfsd is not
installed here so I cannot enable it,but probably my kernel has
been compiled for devfsd,so I'll download devfsd and try to start it.
These new kernels are very different respect 2.2.x series.
I've played also with the new /dev/shm that I added into my /etc/fstab
but I don't know if have I to mkdir /dev/shm to activate shared-memory.
Issuing "free" I see "0" as shared memory.
> Also, structure of the /lib/modules directories is different.
> This confused sndconfig, which told me the kernel is misconfigured until
> I installed a newer sndconfig. It detects an unknown card which it says
> is not supported. If I tell it what it is, it is able to play a sample,
> but I never bothered to hook up speakers, so I don't know if it works.
Yes,true:my old sndconfig is unable to starts now.
> Make sure you have modutils 2.4.2 or newer.
That one I have here...hope to find a solution as for my ppp.
---Regards and TKS...Marco
> Lawson
>
> Yesterday he frolicked in his pussy paradise,
> Decapitating tweety-birds and masticating mice.
> Now he's just five pounds of raw mincemeat that don't smell very nice.
> He's nobody's moggy now.
> - Eric Bogle
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