James, Thanks. My comments are below. Best regards, Peter mailto:alsa@xxxxxxxxx www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Sunday, March 2, 2008, 11:52:57 PM, you wrote: >> I'm a bit confused about the rest of your comment. The only file called >> devfs is a directory which has two subdirectories, neither of which >> seems to have anything interesting in it (one is empty). And I can't >> find a file called snddevices anywhere, but might have mistyped (I'm not >> currently on the Linux machine and can't get to it to check up). > In the alsa-driver package (alsa-project.org) there's a script named > snddevices. It's in the root path of that tarball. Basically it creates > the devices your drivers/applications need to access to do sound. Many > distros set this up for you if you install the needed packages. But > assuming a more basic LFS approach, you need to set them up yourself. You > seem to be missing those devices. Hence the snd_ctl_open error. Not sure what you mean by LFS. Don't forget I'm a Linux newbie. > ls -al /dev/* | grep -i "audio" | wc -l > 23 I get 25 here. Would a list help? None of them is called "default". > lsmod | grep -i "snd" | wc -l > 21 I get 23 here, which I think I posted in an earlier mail. > That's what mine lists. Various /dev/ devices. > /dev/mixer* > /dev/sequencer* > /dev/dsp* > /dev/audio* > If devfs or udev didn't create these for you, then you're left with the old mknod methods. Which the script alsa-driver/snddevices uses to create the devices. > pgrep udev > pgrep devfs > (if you don't get a pid number, then it's not> ) udev is running, devfs isn't. Are they both needed? I can't even find a man page for devfs. There's a file /etc/devfs which just has two directories in it: conf.d and devices.d. conf.d has one file: nvidia-kernel-ufc which doesn't look useful, and devices.d is empty. > Otherwise you may just need to: > apt-get install alsa alsa-base > (and various other alsa* packages.) I did this earlier to clean out anything left by my attaching the USB card. (I have a nasty feeling that the mail that I mentioned this in is awaiting the attention of the mods, as I attached the asound.state file which is a bit big.) Can't see much point in doing it again! Unless you can. > Or run the snddevices script. > find / -iname '*snddevice*' Not on my machine. This of course may be the problem. > HTH As you can see, a bit. But it's a bit uphill. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
