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Re: upgrade to 2.6.5 problem



On 14. May 2004 at 3:11PM +0200,
John L Fjellstad <john-debian@fjellstad.org> wrote:

> csj <csj@zapo.net> writes:
> 
> >> 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
> 
> He would be better off doing it the udev way, namely adding it to the
> rules file, like this:
> KERNEL="mixer*",     NAME="sound/%k", SYMLINK="%k"
> (add the SYMLINK statement to the rule)

Or maybe by creating a custom rules file in rules.d, which can be
retained across upgrades, like:

/etc/udev/rules.d/mixer.rule



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