Re: ALSA - Not working with 2.6 kernel

[John L Fjellstad <john-debian@fjellstad.org>]

Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:

> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
>
> Below is a short part of the /dev/snd directory
>
> kanger:/dev/snd# ls -l
> total 0
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,   0 Feb  7 23:35 controlC0
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,  32 Feb  7 23:35 controlC1
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,  64 Feb  7 23:35 controlC2
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,  96 Feb  7 23:35 controlC3
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,   4 Feb  7 23:35 hwC0D0
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio    116,   5 Feb  7 23:35 hwC0D1
> c
>
> Can anyone help me diagnose whats wrong

Are you running devfs or static /dev?  If staticd, you can recreate the
missing nodes from /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/scripts/MAKEDEV.snd

Not sure why it would work in 2.4 and not 2.6 though (I had a pretty
smooth upgrade)

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