Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] can anyone help me get my /dev/dsp back?
From: Kevin Ernste (kevine88_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 03:49:56 EET
Did you rerun lilo before booting (/sbin/lilo)?
To see if devsf is turned off, just do an "ls /dev" and you will see a
thousand device entries (hopefully indluding dsp), rather than the more
compact devsf soft links organization...it will be nice when it works.
Kevin
--- jordan muscott <morsecode_AT_blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Kevin Ernste wrote:
>
> >As has been said, Mandrake 8.1 uses devsf...which seems pretty flakey
> to
> >me at this point. On my system I just turned it off, and all of the
> >device issues I was having, including the one you describe, magically
> >disappeared.
> >
> >To turn it off, edit lilo.conf for your main boot entry. Add
> >"devsf=nomount quiet". Here's the first entry from mine:
> >
> >image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/hda3
> > initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> > append=" hdd=ide-scsi devfs=nomount quiet mem=512M"
> > vga=788
> > read-only
> >
> >Reboot, and that's it. To renable it, just change "nomount" to "mount.
> >
> >Kevin
> >
>
> thanks -- er, one little problem thus far - changed my lilo.conf, heres
> the first entry:
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda1
> append=" hdc=ide-scsi devfs=nomount quiet"
> vga=788
> read-only
>
>
> but after rebooting and running 'top' , devfs still seems to be running.
>
> any ideas?
> thanks again.
>
> jordan...
>
>
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Kevin Ernste
Eastman School of Music
Eastman Computer Music Center
kevine_AT_ecmc.rochester.edu
http://www.esm.rochester.edu/kevine
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