Re: upgrade to 2.6.5 problem
On 12. May 2004 at 8:59AM +0100,
Keir Lawson <keir@thelawsons.plus.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 06:22 +0800, csj wrote:
> > On 11. May 2004 at 7:34PM +0100,
> > Keir Lawson <keir@thelawsons.plus.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I recently upgraded from kernel 2.4.25 to kernel 2.6.5 (im using
> > > unstable) - the upgrade went OK but now i have two problems:
> > >
> > > 1. the nvidia graphics module isnt loaded on startup (i have to
> > > do insmod /lib/modules/2.6.5-1-k7/nvidia/nvidia.ko before i can
> > > enter the xserver)
> > >
> > > 2. permission are mucked up, for both oss (/dev/dsp,/dev/mixer)
> > > alsa (/dev/snd/*), and nvidia stuff (/dev/nv*), when i change
> > > anything in /dev (creating a folder, changing permissions) the
> > > changes revert on reboot
> >
> > Do you have udev installed?
>
> yup... anyway i discovered that to get audio etc i just had to
> add myself to the audio and video groups... problem solved,
> just one now, when i create a '/dev/sound' directory and put a
> link to /dev/mixer in it (gnome volume control needs this for
> some reason) when i reboot it disapears
Do you create the /dev/sound directory via /etc/udev/links.conf?
If not, maybe you can put in /etc/udev/links.conf something like:
D sound
L sound/mixer /dev/mixer
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