[clug] sound device weirdness

[Andrew Pollock]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:54:30AM +1100, Tony and Ropyn Lewis wrote:
> Andrew Pollock wrote:
> 
> >
> >Are you running devfs or udev? I'm suspecting you may be running udev,
> >otherwise your /dev doesn't change... It could be a udev bug.
> >
> > 
> >
> Not as far as I can see:
> 
> lewis at goofy:~$ grep DEVFS /boot/config-2.6.9-2-k7
> CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
> # CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set
> # CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set
> lewis at goofy:~$ dpkg -l udev
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                        Version                     Description
> +++-===========================-===========================-======================================================================
> un  udev                        <none>                      (no 
> description available)
> 
> 

I take it you're running a stock Debian kernel? They have devfs compiled in
(CONFIG_DEVFS_FS) so if you install devfsd and change /etc/default/devfsd to
mount it on bootup, it might help keep things under control.

Static /dev is boring.

regards

Andrew

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