From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22465 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2004 21:22:13 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Apr 2004 21:22:13 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BIa1t-0003WB-JT for arch-gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:22:13 +0000 Received: (qmail 8188 invoked by uid 50004); 27 Apr 2004 21:22:03 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-ppc-user-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 32026 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2004 21:22:02 +0000 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:22:00 -0400 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E9langer?= To: Meredith Shepherd Cc: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040427212200.GA26339@pinto.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <33290.64.209.125.126.1082924008.squirrel@secure.simons-rock.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <33290.64.209.125.126.1082924008.squirrel@secure.simons-rock.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] alsa sound problem X-Archives-Salt: 31379631-f93f-4cfc-9855-4f162ea752a1 X-Archives-Hash: 403140e10a1ffb67f82df5994e22a7cf On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 04:13:28PM -0400, Meredith Shepherd wrote: > First off, I'm running gentoo linux (kernel version 2.6) on a 900mhz > iBook, installed from a stage 3 2004.0 tarball. I installed alsa > according to the guide on gentoo.com, but devfs is not creating > /dev/mixer, and I can't figure out why. Any ideas? What files should I > post? > Thanks, > Meredith Hi, I'm now on my iBook. I added the following lines in my modules.conf: alias /dev/dsp dmasound_pmac alias /dev/mixer dmasound_pmac These cause the module to be loaded whenever the device is referred. Alternatively, they could be loaded at startup. modules.conf is automatically generated with modutils read doc to know how to do it. Hope it helps, David --- David Bélanger Graduate Student School of Computer Science McGill University Office: MC226 Web page: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/ Public key: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/public_key.txt -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list