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Subject: Re: Naive? question, and SoundBlaster 128 success report. 
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:44:52 -0400
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> Christopher David <cdavid@umich.edu> writes:
> 
> > 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.  
> 
> Where does this script come from?  I'm using the debian packages of
> alsa, and it's not in any of them.  If it's supposed to be in there,
> I'll file a bug and get it fixed once I know what's going on.

I spent about 20 minutes or so trying to get the Debian packages that
were part of slink working and I failed completely.  This was a couple of
months ago, so I don't know if the current packages are more up to date 
or not.  I just --purge'd them and installed from source and had no problems.

I didn't file any bug reports because I wasn't sure if it was something I
was doing wrong or not.  I didn't feel that I had invested enough time
to file a report.

Since the snddevices script should only need to be run once during the
installation, the Debian package probably includes this script as part
of the installation script, in which case it would be installed as
/var/lib/dpkg/info/alsa.something-or-other.

[time passes]

I just checked my local Debian mirror and the precompiled alsa package
is really out of date.  It's at 0.1.4, which is pretty old.

I strongly recommend that you either download the source from alsa.jcu.cz
or install the debian alsa source package (which is up to date) and compile
it yourself.  I just checked and the snddevices script is included in
alsa-source_0.2.0-pre8-2.deb.

Eric

