Re: config mixer device for aumix

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 00:06:53 +0000, 46kmz5j02@sneakemail.com wrote:
> I upgraded from sarge to etch, and now console sound apps like 
> aumix and mp3blaster won't work (sound apps work fine in X).  
> During boot, the following message is displayed: 
> 
> "Restoring mixer settings: failed"
> 
> If I run 'aumix', it says "aumix:  error opening mixer".  The 
> default mixer it is looking for, /dev/mixer, does not exist.  I 
> looked around in /dev/ and found the following:
> 
> "crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 2005-02-26 01:39 /dev/.static/dev/mixer"
> 
> If I run 'aumix -d /dev/.static/dev/mixer', then it works as it
>  should, even if I kill it and then just run 'aumix' without the 
> '-d' option.  If I then shutdown or reboot, I see a message about 
> the mixer and muting being saved.  However, on the next boot, 
> it once again says: "Restoring mixer settings: failed".

[...]

> I am using kernel 2.6.15-1-k7.  

That looks like a problem with udev. Did you purge the hotplug package
after you upgraded to Etch?

-- 
Regards,
          Florian