On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:38:58AM +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: > > * There is *no* /dev/pcm at all. > > Do you mean /dev/snd/pcm? Either way, NOT good. Yes. > > * /etc/udev/rules.d is empty > > This is expected; have you ever placed anything there yourself before? No. > Do you know about the the rc.conf changes WRT (1) blacklisting modules > and (2) time? Yes. > Or, was the last time you updated before this, quite a > while back? According to pacman.log it seems the last full update was in March. > I understand getting the RME to work initially was no trouble, and > just the standard alsa installation (and the driver gets loaded > automatically)? Yes, never had any problem with it. It seems I have *two* machines having this problem, both updated yesterday. I didn't test the audio on the first one as everything seemed to be OK. The second one was actually updated using pacserve, with only a few packages coming from the mirror, the rest being provided by the first updated machine. Also this went so smoothly that I forgot to mention it. Today, on both machines, the 'missing file' errors from udev have disappeared. But you'll find yesterday's ones, rc.conf, pacman.log and fstab here: <http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/archinfo.tar.bz2>. Use wget, there are no links to this. Ciao, -- FA