Re: alsa and devfs (maybe OT)

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Brown writes:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:56:14PM -0800, Brad Chapman wrote:
> [clip]
> > > 3. Run one of the cute GUI mixers, like gmix or kmix, and turn up the
> > >    levels again. I have no idea why this is necessary, but it is on my
> > >    machines.
> > 
> >     I don't need to do that. I'm running ALSA 0.9.0beta9 in the 
> > non-kernel-patch
> > form on top of 2.4.14.
> 
> I think I have the same thing on one of my boxes - Mandrake 8.1,
> 2.4.14 kernel, alsa 0.9beta9 (I think), devfs enabled... and I have to
> run gmix or kmix before I get the devices. I haven't delved deep
> enough in the source of gmix, kmix, alsamixer, and amixer to determine
> what the former two seem to be touching that the latter two will not.

devfsd /dev -d

will run devfsd in protocol debug mode. You can see exactly what is
being done to/with devfs.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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