2.4.0 - sndstat not present

2.4.0 - sndstat not present

[Martin Laberge]

i installed 2.4.0 last week and all worked well on my amd-K6-350
i use a cheap sound card since 2.0.36 and it always worked well too.
it work well now in 2.4.0, BUT , /dev/sndstat report me <no such file or
directory>
and /proc/sound (as noted in documentation) does not exist...

the sound work well, but i cant verify the existence of the driver with
sndstat anymore

could someone tell me if i should have done some additionnal
configuration to see
appear the /proc/sound or to enable /dev/sndstat...

maybe is it another method now in 2.4 to see the sound status...

Best Wishes to all of you for the new year...

Martin Laberge
mlsoft@videotron.ca





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Re: 2.4.0 - sndstat not present

[Christoph Hellwig]

In article <3A59CD57.6FA72934@videotron.ca> you wrote:
> i installed 2.4.0 last week and all worked well on my amd-K6-350
> i use a cheap sound card since 2.0.36 and it always worked well too.
> it work well now in 2.4.0, BUT , /dev/sndstat report me <no such file or
> directory>
> and /proc/sound (as noted in documentation) does not exist...

Please read Documentation/sound/NEWS.
Where in the documentation is /proc/sound still noted?

> the sound work well, but i cant verify the existence of the driver with
> sndstat anymore
>
> could someone tell me if i should have done some additionnal
> configuration to see
> appear the /proc/sound or to enable /dev/sndstat...

No - it's simply gone.

> maybe is it another method now in 2.4 to see the sound status...

cat foo.au > /dev/audio

> Best Wishes to all of you for the new year...

	Christoph

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Re: 2.4.0 - sndstat not present

[Martin Laberge]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> In article <3A59CD57.6FA72934@videotron.ca> you wrote:
> > i installed 2.4.0 last week and all worked well on my amd-K6-350
> > i use a cheap sound card since 2.0.36 and it always worked well too.
> > it work well now in 2.4.0, BUT , /dev/sndstat report me <no such file or
> > directory>
> > and /proc/sound (as noted in documentation) does not exist...
>
> Please read Documentation/sound/NEWS.
> Where in the documentation is /proc/sound still noted?
>
> > the sound work well, but i cant verify the existence of the driver with
> > sndstat anymore
> >
> > could someone tell me if i should have done some additionnal
> > configuration to see
> > appear the /proc/sound or to enable /dev/sndstat...
>
> No - it's simply gone.
>
> > maybe is it another method now in 2.4 to see the sound status...
>
> cat foo.au > /dev/audio
>
> > Best Wishes to all of you for the new year...
>
>         Christoph
>
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the reference to sndstat and /proc/sound was found in

drivers/sound/soundcard.c

thanks for your lights on this topic...

is there nothing i can use anymore to check existence of sound drivers
in kernel...

these informations were very valuables when i was configuring my cards
for the first time... sometimes the driver loaded but do not appeared in
sndstat
then i was able to change my configuration according to what i see in
sndstat...

now i just guess and try to play something...

hummmmm (((((

Martin Laberge
mlsoft@videotron.ca


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Re: 2.4.0 - sndstat not present

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:30:39AM -0500, Martin Laberge wrote:
> the reference to sndstat and /proc/sound was found in
> 
> drivers/sound/soundcard.c

IIRC it is only in the changelogs - and I don't want to play Big Brother on
source files ...

> thanks for your lights on this topic...
> 
> is there nothing i can use anymore to check existence of sound drivers
> in kernel...

Nothing sound specific, no.

> 
> these informations were very valuables when i was configuring my cards
> for the first time... sometimes the driver loaded but do not appeared in
> sndstat
> then i was able to change my configuration according to what i see in
> sndstat...

The problem is that the PCI drivers don't support this feature anymore.
Not sure wether ALSA, which will bring a unified (in-kernel) sound-API
again has such a feature.

	Christoph

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