On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 06:51:24 +0100 Dave Turner <dave_t_tur...@barradas.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> I have a working devuan ascii with no systemd no dbus no udev and no > pulseaudio on my old iMac. (no X11 either, but we'll come to that) Very nice! > > I installed eudev Did you install eudev simply by apt-get install udev? Were there any other steps? > and then I deleted /etc/init.d/udev and rebooted. This means that udev won't run on boot. Did /etc/init.d/eudev exist, or did you just not have a daemon? [snip] > > For sound I installed flac, alsa-utils, and the ncurses media player > moc. alsa-utils includes alsa-mixer and that let me un-mute the > sound. And it works! I think the docs on alsa and sound on linux have > become divorced from reality over the years, I know how to read and > follow instructions, I should have been able to do this years ago. I > had to do it by trial and error! Dave, a cool move on your part would be to document exactly how you did the setup described in the preceding paragraph. Until Devuan gets their documentation act together, I'd suggest publishing your documentation on a website controlled by you, so that it's permanent. A whole heck of a lot of people want to have a simple, no-nonsense sound setup like you describe. I'm one of them. SteveT _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
