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Hello, Pandu. |
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 07:35:14AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> On Mar 21, 2012 5:36 AM, "Alan Mackenzie" <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > Hi, all. |
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> > Got a problem with my system running under mdev. When I try to play CDs |
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> > (with aqualung feeding into PulseAudio), no sound comes out. However, |
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> > when I listen to an audio section from a newspaper page such as |
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> > www.tagesschau.de (no idea what audio format) it works. |
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> > Clearly this is something to do with mdev. I had a look at the devices |
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> > in /dev, searching for those in group audio. Under udev, I find the |
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> > following as device nodes: |
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> > adsp audio dsp mixer mixer1 sequencer sequencer2. |
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> > Under mdev, all of these bar one are symlinks into the real nodes in a |
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> > subdirectory. The odd man out is mixer1 which is a device node, but |
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> > with owner/group begin root/root (rather than root/audio). |
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> > Can anybody suggest any fix, or further areas of exploration? Thanks! |
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> That's indicative that it's the kernel doing the populating (that is, |
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> everything belongs to root:root). |
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No, it was just that one device belonging to root:root. This is |
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mysterious indeed. |
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> That means, mdev hasn't got the chance to 'restructure' the /dev |
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> directory (that is, rename and/or move and/or chown devices). |
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> Does 'mdev -s' exist in your /sbin/linuxrc? Can you post your linuxrc |
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> here? |
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mdev -s wasn't in my /sbin/linuxrc. It is now. It hasn't made any |
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difference to that wayward device. |
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As I said to Walt, I've solved the problem by turfing out pulseaudio. |
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> Rgds, |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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