The problem appears to be MAKEDEV can not create the audio devices. When I ran MAKEDEV (yes, as root), it reported about 20-odd errors of the form:
mv: can not move `mixer-' to `mixer': Operation not permitted. An strace of MAKEDEV reveals that in all of the reported failures, rename returns -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted). There is no obvious reason that I can see for the failure. /dev is not read-only, neither are the original *- files, and the target files do not exist. Any idea what is going on? Or what to do about it? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. - PK On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 08:21, Pat Kerwan wrote: > I just installed Gentoo 1.4 rc1, and I'm having trouble getting sound to > work. > > I'm running Linux kernel 2.4.20 (built from gentoo's kernel source), > compiled with GCC version 3.2.2. > > Running: > > # modprobe i810_audio > > loads (I belive) all sound modules (soundcore, ac97_codec -- in > addition to i810_audio), and dmesg does not show any errors. > > I noticed that the /dev/sound directory didn't exit, so I ran MAKEDEV, > but it dumped a bunch of error messages like the following: > > mv: can not move `mixer-' to `mixer': Operation not permitted. > > Anyway, it'd be quicker to identify the devs that were created, which > were: > > /dev/sound/dsp > /dev/sound/mixer > > As a sanity check, I tried booting from my Knoppix CD, and sound works > fine with it, so I know the card works. If it matters, Knoppix is > running kernel 2.4.19, compiled with GCC 2.95.4). lsmod on Knoppix > shows the same sound modules as it does on Gentoo, so I'm pretty sure I > got the right modules, and that I'm not missing any. > > This is where I ran out of ideas. Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance, > > - PK > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
