Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263383AbTEISDX (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 14:03:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263389AbTEISDX (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 14:03:23 -0400 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:14028 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263383AbTEISDQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 14:03:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3EBBF00D.8040108@hotmail.com> Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 11:14:37 -0700 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Torrey Hoffman CC: Giuliano Pochini , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: ALSA busted in 2.5.69 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2963 Lines: 73 Torrey Hoffman wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 01:09, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > >>On 08-May-2003 Torrey Hoffman wrote: >> >>>ALSA isn't working for me in 2.5.69. It appears to be because >>>/proc/asound/dev is missing the control devices. > > ... > >>If you are not using devfs, you need to create the devices. There is a >>script in the ALSA-driver package to do that. Otherwise I can't help >>you because I never tried devfs and linux 2.5.x. > > > No. /dev/snd is a symbolic link to /proc/asound/dev, > and that symbolic link was created by the script you mention. > (I am not using devfs.) > > So the missing "/dev/snd/controlC0" should actually be created > by the ALSA modules in the proc filesystem as > "/proc/asound/dev/controlC0". But only the timer device is there. Warning: I'm no expert on any of this -- but -- I'm listening to sound right now using 2.5.69 (with devfs) and this is what I see: There are NO symlinks from /dev to /proc. None. /dev/snd and /dev/sound are real directories -- neither is a symlink. #ls -l /dev/snd total 0 crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 0 Dec 31 1969 controlC0 crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 32 Dec 31 1969 controlC1 crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 64 Dec 31 1969 controlC2 crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 96 Dec 31 1969 controlC3 crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 128 Dec 31 1969 controlC4 crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 160 Dec 31 1969 controlC5 crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 192 Dec 31 1969 controlC6 crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 224 Dec 31 1969 controlC7 crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 24 Dec 31 1969 pcmC0D0c crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 16 Dec 31 1969 pcmC0D0p crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 25 Dec 31 1969 pcmC0D1c crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 17 Dec 31 1969 pcmC0D1p crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 1 Dec 31 1969 seq crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 116, 33 Dec 31 1969 timer #ls -l /dev/sound total 0 crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 14, 12 Dec 31 1969 adsp crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 14, 4 Dec 31 1969 audio crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 mixer crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 14, 1 Dec 31 1969 sequencer crw------- 1 wa1ter audio 14, 8 Dec 31 1969 sequencer2 #ls -l /dev/dsp lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 May 9 10:33 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp #ls -l /dev/adsp lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 May 9 10:33 /dev/adsp -> sound/adsp Seems to me that any symlinks to /proc don't really belong in /dev. Any opinions to the contrary? (Remember: my sound is working just fine.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/