Re: Problems with gnome-volume-manager et al in sarge
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 12:56, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:05:15PM -0500, James Strandboge wrote:
> > 1. gnome-volume-manager is not started on login-- but I can start it
> > from the command line (and thus add it to the session at a later date).
>
> It will also be started if you enter the ``removable storage'' preferences
> menu. gvm is in the default debian session currently, but if you have a custom
> session it indeed won't be automagically added. Don't think there is anything
> we can do about that.
I figured as much and know how to add it to my session. No problem.
> > 2. When I insert a data cd into my cdrom drive, gvm/hal/pmount mounts
> > the cd 7 times (as scd0 through scd6). If I insert an audio cd,
> > gnome-cd is launched 7 times.
>
> The right question is why you have 7 scsi cd devices ? Note that ide-scsi
> shouldn't be used anymore with linux 2.6 kernels.
>
Indeed-- I was still using ide_scsi. After removing it, and adding
ide-cd to /etc/modules and rebooting, it still didn't work. So I:
telinit 1
rm -rf /media/*
removed all removable entries from /etc/fstab (again)
apt-get remove --purge dbus-1
sudo apt-get install --reinstall makedev
apt-get install gnome
reboot
This pulled out all the utopia stack (and other things), then recreated
all the devices, then pulled in the whole utopia stack (which then
deleted many of the devices again...). After reboot I can now put in a
data cd and have 1 nautilus window open to the contents of the cd. I
can unmount it now too.
However, now all my /dev/dsp* devices are gone, and udev is creating
them. I tried recreating them with:
cd /dev; MAKEDEV -v audio
and it shows they are being created, but they are not actually created.
As such, I have no sound. esd doesn't start, can't get the mixer going
in gnome, aumix, alsamixer, etc. I am using alsa and lsmod shows that
all the modules are loaded-- I just don't have the device files:
$ sudo lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0 36460 0
snd_ac97_codec 70020 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 55048 0
snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 98728 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25668 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11752 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4704 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 7968 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 25156 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 57156 9
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10336 1 snd
I looked in /etc/udev and there is stuff in there referencing /dev/dsp,
etc, but it seems to be for use with devfs. Is devfs required? What is
the best way of handling these sound devices?
Thanks for your help so far, I am much closer. :)
Jamie
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