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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mdev: sound is only working some of the time.
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:41:19
Message-Id: 20120321133822.GB3112@acm.acm
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mdev: sound is only working some of the time. by Pandu Poluan
1 Hello again,
2
3 On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 08:12:40PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
4 > On Mar 21, 2012 8:07 PM, "Alan Mackenzie" <acm@×××.de> wrote:
5
6 > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 07:49:02PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
7 > > > Strange...
8
9 > > > Do you use mdev to handle hotplugs, btw?
10
11 > > You mean, like sticking in a USB stick, or turning my printer on? Yes, I
12 > > do.
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15 > No, I mean, did you do :
16
17 > echo /bin/mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
18
19 No I haven't. I don't understand at all what this is about. Any chance
20 of a quick summary?
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22 > (ensure beforehand that /bin/mdev is a symlink to /bin/busybox)
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24 my /sbin/mdev is an indirect symlink to /bin/busybox as follows:
25 ^
26
27 /sbin/mdev -> /bin/bb -> busybox
28
29 Presumably this would be OK.
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31 > Rgds,
32
33 --
34 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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