Re: alsa sound module on 2.5.72 --- does not create /dev/snd/controlC0

From: Jaroslav Kysela (perex@perex.cz)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 06:30:53 EST


On 19 Jun 2003, Frank Victor Fischer wrote:

> Hello out there
>
> I have just switched from 2.5.70 to 2.5.72 on my test box, and found
> that I have problems using the mixer for emu10k1, with both alsamixer
> and amixer. Using 2.5.71 hit the same problem.
>
> Next, I have used the 2.5.70 source tree for the 2.5.72 build, but the
> problem persists.
>
> I have then straced the command "amixer set Master 50 unmute" on both
> 2.5.70 and 2.5.72, which revealed that on .72 /dev/snd/controlC0 is not
> created (the mixer program cannot open it), because /dev/snd is a
> symbolic link to /proc/asound/dev which does not exist.
>
> What am I missing?

You need to rerun the snddevices scripts (distributed in the alsa-driver
package) or use devfs. The dynamic devices in the proc filesystem were
removed on request to clean up the ALSA code.

                                                Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs

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