Re: PROBLEM: Probable kernel bug in VT8233 drivers

[Paul Abrahams <abrahams@acm.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

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