Quoting "\"Andrey Borzenkov\" " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

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> > Quoting Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> > > I do not know if it specific in 2.6 or just newer ALSA - but now (in 2.6)
> no
> > > 
> > > /proc/asound/dev is created. It does not matter for devfs case because it
> 
> > > stil creates /dev/snd/... as before. But for non-devfs case initscript 
> > > assumes that no ALSA should be loaded if /proc/asound/dev does not exist.
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> > > Even worse - for 2.4 script wipes out /dev/snd and links it to 
> > > /proc/asound/dev, thus leaving bogus links when we boot 2.6. So even
> fixing
> > > 
> > > script and manually creating /dev/snd/* filew will last until next time
> 2.4
> > > 
> > > is booted.
> > > 
> > > I have no idea how to solve it; anyone with better ALSA knowledge out
> > > there?
> > 
> > actually just found this
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/2.4-patches/
> > and i'll try to merge it in 2.4.
> > you might want to make a forward port of 
> > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/2.4-patches/alsa-zx-proc-devs.dif.gz
> >          adding device files on procfs, which was removed from
> >     the recent ALSA release
> > 
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> why would you need that? The original problem is incompatiblility
> between old (2.4 kernel) and new (2.6 kernel) ALSA. If you include
> new ALSA in 2.4, incompatibility goes away and problem is solved.

just intermediate solution until alsa-0.9.6 is merged in the 2.4 kernel,
for the long run this is really BAD BAD STUPID idea (sorry) 

svetljo


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