On 8/29/06, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> At Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:57:11 -0700,
> Miles Lane wrote:
> >
> > On 8/28/06, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > At Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:49:39 -0700,
> > > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:11:52 +0200
> > > > Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > At Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:55:32 -0700,
> > > > > Miles Lane wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I haven't had working audio in 2.6.18-rc4-mm series (1,2,3).
> > > > > > I haven't been able to track down the cause yet. The modules
> > > > > > all load, and there seems to be the expected enties in /proc,
> > > > > > but my sound preferences panel shows no available audio card.
> > > > > (snip)
> > > > > > Aug 26 23:16:56 localhost kernel: warning: process `alsactl' used the
> > > > > > obsolete sysctl system call
> > > > > > Aug 26 23:16:56 localhost kernel: warning: process `ls' used the
> > > > > > obsolete sysctl system call
> > > > > > Aug 26 23:16:56 localhost kernel: warning: process `alsactl' used the
> > > > > > obsolete sysctl system call
> > > > > > Aug 26 23:16:56 localhost kernel: warning: process `amixer' used the
> > > > > > obsolete sysctl system call
> > > > > > Aug 26 23:16:56 localhost kernel: warning: process `amixer' used the
> > > > > > obsolete sysctl system call
> > > > >
> > > > > Are these messages relavant? Even "ls" fails there...
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > No, they're just a little warning we put in there to find out how
> > > > removeable sys_sysctl() is. (Answer: not very. I'll drop that patch).
> > > >
> > > > It isn't relevant to this problem.
> > >
> > > OK.
> > >
> > > Then it must be something in the driver communication.
> > > Miles, do you have proper /dev/snd/* entries?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have no /dev/snd directory.
>
> That's odd. Any udev errors?
> Do you have /sys/class/sound/* directories?