Patrick Shirkey wrote: > John Ouzts wrote: > >> I have also discovered that kmix appears as a gray window without any >> sliders or labels. Alsamixer shows one slider labelled DAC, which will >> adjust. I also got an error message with says: Mixer device /dev/mixer >> is missing volume and PCM controls. >> >> Gentoo uses devfsd, so I am wondering if I need to set some devices in >> devfsd.conf. >> > > I don't use devfsd (yet) but IIRC you shouldn't run the ./snddevices > script after installing the alsa-driver package. It seems to cause > problems. > > Miriam should be able to give more light on this as she recently > conquered the problem. hi, yes thats exactly what i ended up doing... i'm using Mandrake 9.0 and alsa CVS from a few months back (havent had time / havent dared to upgrade since it was working so nicely!)... its very important *not* to run snddevices on a devfs machine. from a clean install of mdk 9.0 i left all the alsa rpms in place (this is important too. not sure if they do anything settings-wise but if you remove them you risk killing KDE and the knock-on effect of mangling X... which is what happened to me, even though i restored all the KDE rpms...) the only thing necessary to do is tar up and then remove all the alsa modules from /lib/modules *except* for soundcore of course. build cvs and install as normal. *dont* run snddevices. i hope this will work on all devfs machines... it seems to work well on mdk 9 on my thinkpad anyhow.... good luck! m~ -- iriXx www.iriXx.org copyleft: creativity, technology and freedom? info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.copyleftmedia.org.uk _ ( ) ascii ribbon against html email X / \ cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/dsp *** stopping make sense ***
