Re: No soundcards found - but only kernel 3.x

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At Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:00:13 +0000 (UTC),
User wrote:
> 
> > I'm suggesting that instead of aplay -l that you look in /proc/asound
> > instead: aplay requires a lot of things to be working before it reports
> > anything at all.   /proc/asound will be there even if nothing works and
> > will certainly include useful information even when aplay doesn't do
> > anything useful.
> 
> Have posted contents of asound in this thread bottom.
> Seems ALL is OK. but aplay fails to open the /dev node
> 
> 
> > It's not bias, it's a question of using what is known to work.   Note
> > that among other things, udev handles the cases where the major and
> > minor numbers for a device aren't fixed.   You may or may not be falling
> > foul of this.
> 
> Well, shure it works but it is not a needed stuff.
> 
> About more than a decade without it and ALSA was PERFECT - really.
> JACK+ALSA was a combination without much trouble.
> 
> If UDEV is causing this problem..... hmmmm I can not be shure so far.
> 
> The kernel driver seems to me the cause - WHY it can open the /dev node
> in version 2.6x but **not** in version(s) 3.x ? 
> It is the same device node, same perm, same MAJOR/MINOR... identical.
> 
> That is my/the problem... driving me nuts :)
> The driver internals changed quite a bit.

Make sure that you do *not* set CONFIG_SND_DYNAMIC_MINORS=y.  If this
option is set, the dynamic device file assignment like udev becomes
mandatory.

BTW, this option is forcibly set if you have
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_HDMI=y because HDMI requires more PCM devices
than the static devices may have.


Takashi

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