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Re: devfsd and /dev/midi00 devices?

To: jayv@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: devfsd and /dev/midi00 devices?
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:28:24 -0500 (EST)
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 jayv@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> whatever i do, i cannot get devfsd to understand/recognize that it should
> create these entries in the devfs - i've tried adding this to my
> compat file in /etc/devfsd.d/ :

devfsd is not supposed to create device files.  It merely creates links
for the device files and does a lot of other things when the kernel
creates or destroys device entries on devfs or when a userspace program
looks for an entry.

So you should look for a midi device that already exists when the driver
is loaded.  Check that it works and then instruct devfs to create a link
to the old location if you want.

I haven't worked with sound for a long time.  I think the file you are
looking for should appear under /dev/sound if using OSS or under
/dev/asound is using ALSA.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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