/dev/dsp gone?

onelung02 · 07-19-2005, 07:13 PM

Hello all. A bit of a sound problem. I updated dropline-gnome last night and when I rebooted I had no sound. Apparently now I have now /dev/dsp either. I am using a 24 bit external Soundblaster and Kernel 2.6.12.1 with Slackware Current. Any ideas on this. Oh, also I did a swaret upgrade as well.

-onelung

onelung02 · 07-19-2005, 07:18 PM

By the by here is what swaret updated --

Mon Jul 18 18:29:47 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading bitchx-1.1-i 486-1 to bitchx-1.1-i486-2... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:29:58 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading devs-2.3.1-n oarch-21 to devs-2.3.1-noarch-22... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:30:07 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading gcc-3.3.5-i4 86-1 to gcc-3.3.6-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:30:15 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading gcc-g++-3.3. 5-i486-1 to gcc-g++-3.3.6-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:30:22 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading gcc-g77-3.3. 5-i486-1 to gcc-g77-3.3.6-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:30:34 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading gcc-gnat-3.3 .5-i486-1 to gcc-gnat-3.3.6-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:30:50 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading gcc-java-3.3 .5-i486-1 to gcc-java-3.3.6-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:30:56 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading gcc-objc-3.3 .5-i486-1 to gcc-objc-3.3.6-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:31:03 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading gkrellm-2.2. 4-i486-1 to gkrellm-2.2.7-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:31:09 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading hfsutils-3.2 .6-i386-2 to hfsutils-3.2.6-i486-3... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:31:18 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading imagemagick- 6.2.3_0-i486-1 to imagemagick-6.2.3_3-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:31:23 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading iptables-1.2 .11-i486-1 to iptables-1.3.2-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:31:31 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading irssi-0.8.9- i486-6 to irssi-0.8.9-i486-7... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:31:54 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading kdeartwork-3 .4.1-i486-1 to kdeartwork-3.4.1-i486-2... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:32:12 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading kdebindings- 3.4.1-i486-1 to kdebindings-3.4.1-i486-2... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:32:44 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading koffice-1.4. 0a-i486-1 to koffice-1.4.0a-i486-2... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:32:52 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading libtiff-3.7. 2-i486-1 to libtiff-3.7.3-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:33:04 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading mysql-4.0.24 -i486-1 to mysql-4.1.12-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:33:30 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading perl-5.8.6-i 486-1 to perl-5.8.7-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:33:39 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading pkgtools-10. 1.0-i486-4 to pkgtools-10.2.0-i486-2... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:33:44 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading popa3d-0.6.4 .1-i486-1 to popa3d-1.0-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:34:08 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading qt-3.3.4-i48 6-1 to qt-3.3.4-i486-2... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:34:15 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading rsync-2.6.3- i486-1 to rsync-2.6.5-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:34:19 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading tcpdump-3.8. 3-i486-2 to tcpdump-3.9.3-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:34:25 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading texinfo-4.7- i486-1 to texinfo-4.8-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:34:33 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading udev-054-i48 6-3 to udev-062-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:34:38 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading vsftpd-2.0.1 -i486-1 to vsftpd-2.0.3-i486-1... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:34:44 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - => Upgrading xv-3.10a-i48 6-3 to xv-3.10a-i486-4... DONE!
Mon Jul 18 18:34:44 MDT 2005: [ function_upgrade() ] - INFORMATION: Set DEPENDEN CY to 0 in /etc/swaret.conf\n to disable Dependency Support.\n
Mon Jul 18 18:35:00 MDT 2005: [ dependency_check() ] - %%% Verifying Dependencie s... Libraries resolved successfully!

When I find out where the dropline log file is I will post that as well.

fsbooks · 07-19-2005, 07:56 PM

I lost sound and printing when upgrading. Thinking it was devs or udev, I re-upgraded (downgraded I suppose) the following

udev-062-i486-1 --> udev-050-i486-1

devs-2.3.1-noarch-22 --> devs-2.3.1-noarch-21

Sound is back, the printer is not.

Before upgrading I had udev-054-i486-3 and devs-2.3.1-noarch-21, so I stepped back a bit with udev. I just found a mirror that still had the udev-054-i486-3 version of udev (I run "current" and got the files from 10.1), so I will be trying that. I'ld suspect it is either a bug or some new configuration I did not feel like figuring out yet.

gbonvehi · 07-19-2005, 08:17 PM

From Slackware-current ChangeLog at: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar.../ChangeLog.txt

Quote:

a/udev-062-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to udev-062.
This seems to be broken with regard to ALSA devices... I'd suggest
anyone using a 2.6 kernel "chmod 644 /etc/rc.d/rc.udev" unless you want
to help locate and report bugs. It's also possible that this has
something to do with the ever-changing syntax used in the udev.rules
config file. If you find any problems that can be attributed to that,
fixes would be appreciated. For now, rc.udev will be off by default.

onelung02 · 07-19-2005, 09:06 PM

Quote:

chmod 644 /etc/rc.d/rc.udev

That did it. Thanks for the help.

-onelung

MMYoung · 07-20-2005, 07:45 AM

If you are using udev-054 you shouldn't have to "chmod 644 /etc/rc.d/rc.udev". When you do that you loose all that udev "brings to the table" and revert back to devfs. I know that devfs works, but the future (as they say) is udev. Matter of fact devfs is obsoleted in the newer kernels.

Now, for starters, Dropline Gnome is supported on Slackware 10.1 ONLY. It will run on current, but it is neither recommended nor encouraged by the DLG devs. They will help if you run into problems but if it is due to current, well you're on your own.

Next for the /dev/dsp thing. Have you run alsaconf, as root, from either a command log on or from a terminal? Alsaconf added the following to my /etc/modules.conf and now I /dev/dsp so that Gnome will function.

/etc/modules.conf

Code:

alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1

After a reboot I had a /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer and /dev/midi.

HTH,
MMYoung

viza · 07-21-2005, 07:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MMYoung
If you are using udev-054 you shouldn't have to "chmod 644 /etc/rc.d/rc.udev". When you do that you loose all that udev "brings to the table" and revert back to devfs. I know that devfs works, but the future (as they say) is udev. Matter of fact devfs is obsoleted in the newer kernels.

Now, for starters, Dropline Gnome is supported on Slackware 10.1 ONLY. It will run on current, but it is neither recommended nor encouraged by the DLG devs. They will help if you run into problems but if it is due to current, well you're on your own.

Next for the /dev/dsp thing. Have you run alsaconf, as root, from either a command log on or from a terminal? Alsaconf added the following to my /etc/modules.conf and now I /dev/dsp so that Gnome will function.

/etc/modules.conf

Code:

alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1

After a reboot I had a /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer and /dev/midi.

HTH,
MMYoung

As well, when you update your kernel, you need to recompile the alsa-drivers package so your kernel modules are compiled using the new kernel headers. Video and sound drivers need to match symbols with the kernel in order to work properly. I had this issue with a redhat kernel upgrade. I just downloaded the alsa-drivers package, did the ./configure;make;make install routine and sound started working. Didn't need to touch alsa, mixer or configs.

cheers,
Viza

islord · 07-22-2005, 12:08 PM

Quote:

Now, for starters, Dropline Gnome is supported on Slackware 10.1 ONLY.

Not true. There is also Dropline GNOME 2.8.3 for Slackware 10.0 as you can clearly see here.