On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:30:29PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > 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 I think that aumix uses some kind of OSS compatibility mode of ALSA. In my case I need to `modprobe snd-mixer-oss` to get the /dev/mixer device for aumix. Simo -- :r ~/.signature
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature