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From: Christopher David <cdavid@umich.edu>
To: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: Naive? question, and SoundBlaster 128 success report.
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Did you run snddevices in the driver directory?  /dev/snd should be a link
to /proc/asound/dev.  /proc/asound/dev should be created when the kernel
modules load correctly. I assume this 'cause of the last line of
snddevices script.  

Good Luck,

-Chris

On 22 Oct 1998, Rob Browning wrote:

> 
> I have a machine with a SoundBlaster 128, and first I wanted to report
> that the 1370 driver appears to work so far.
> 
> However, my current problem is that if I open up a normal mixer
> program like tkmixer or gmix, the CD player suddenly cuts off, and
> won't come back.  I found out about alasamixer and figured I was
> probably supposed to use that, but when I tried to run it, it looks
> for /dev/snd/control0, which I don't have.
> 
> I'm presuming I need to create that device file, but I couldn't find
> anything indicating what it's major and minor numbers should be.  Is
> there documentation for this somewhere?
> 
> Sorry if this is a FAQ.  Just point me at the M if it is.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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> Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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