On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:59, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am struggling a bit with devfsd and could do with some help
Firstly this isn't really a KDE issue, you could have the same problem using GNOME or using command line tools. I suggest that debian-kde be removed from follow-up in future discussion. > When kde starts up it complains that it can't find /dev/dsp at the point > where it normally plays the little "I have started up" music sequence > (prior to that, when the sound card was compiled into the kernel and the > /dev directory was hardcoded - I got sound out without any problem) Create a new file /etc/modutils/mysound containing something like the following: alias /dev/sound sound-module Also whatever else needs to be loaded. Then run "update-modules". Then in the devfsd compatibility file make sure that you enable compatibility links for ^sound/.* (if you don't have the default settings to enable them for everything). The default devfsd settings alias /dev/dsp (and all other sound devices) to /dev/sound. > LOOKUP ^dsp$ MODLOAD > > somewhere. However I did this, and it didn't seem to solve anything It already does modloads for unknown modules by default. Your problem is that modutils doesn't know what to do when it sees /dev/dsp or /dev/sound listed as a module name. > Question 2 should not the standard debian distribution be doing whatever is > needed for me Unless the standard Debian distribution could know what type of sound card you have this is not possible... I suggest that future questions about Debian devfs be sent to debian-user and CC'd to me (I'm the Debian maintainer for devfsd). -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
