From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Abrahams Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Probable kernel bug in VT8233 drivers Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 22:24:27 -0500 Message-ID: <200701062224.27608.abrahams@acm.org> References: <200701041332.46215.abrahams@acm.org> <200701041823.48794.abrahams@acm.org> <1167956020.11404.31.camel@mindpipe> Reply-To: abrahams@acm.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from alnrmhc14.comcast.net (alnrmhc14.comcast.net [206.18.177.54]) by alsa.jcu.cz (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id 51A341A9 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2007 04:24:34 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <1167956020.11404.31.camel@mindpipe> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Lee Revell Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Peter Zubaj List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thursday 04 January 2007 7:13 pm, Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 18:23 -0500, Paul Abrahams wrote: > > On Thursday 04 January 2007 4:06 pm, Peter Zubaj wrote: > > > If card is in /proc/asound/cards then driver is loaded and working. > > > Probably Yast will fail to load driver again, because it is already > > > loaded. > > > > > > You have probably problem with dev files. Check if there are dev files > > > in /dev/snd subdir (I think this is default). > > > > > > Something like this: > > > crw------- 1 peter root 116, 13 Jan 4 17:03 controlC0 > > > crw------- 1 peter root 116, 20 Jan 4 17:03 controlC1 > > > > This is getting interesting. I do not have a /dev/snd directory. I > > tried reinstalling the devs rpm package, and that recreated /dev/snd, but > > after a reboot /dev/snd was gone again. > > This is a bug in your distro. udev is supposed to create those files. I just updated ALSA from version 1.0.10 to version 1.0.13 and -- miracle of miracles -- my sound is back! Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV