Re: Issues with a new etch install: pmud, alsa etc.
On 1/26/06, Michael Schmitz <schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> > First of all I've been unable to get pbbuttonsd working, I installedthe
> > package for it but when I try to start it I get: Rancorwe:/home/avar#
> > /etc/init.d/pbbuttonsd startStarting pbbuttonsd:ERROR: The file
> > '/dev/pmu' doesn't exist.failed! I'm running the 2.6.8-powerpc kernel if
> > that helps (sarge)
>
> Note that you're not using pmud but pbbuttonsd. /dev/pmu should be
> automagically created by udev (though you'll need a recent kernel for
> that) or devfsd. If neither is running, pbbuttonsd's postinst script ought
> to create /dev/pmu for you (that's what pmud does, at least).
Should, but isn't
> As a workaround you could always temporarily install pmud to get that
> device created :-)
That worked perfectly, thanks, still the alsa problem though but that
doesn't really matter now that I can adjust the volume using
pbbuttonsd, thanks.
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