Subject: pbbuttonsd: pbbuttons assumes there is a /dev/mixer Package: pbbuttonsd Version: 0.7.1-1 Severity: important
Hello, I have been playing with my kernel because of some problems with automounting (dbus,hal,gnome-volume-manager). Accidentaly I have removed the sound support from the kernel, thus depriving myself from having a /dev/mixer device at the next reboot, after the installation of the new kernel. As I wanted to recompile my kernel with sound support and being in a hurry I decided to disable suspend-to-ram when closing the lid of my laptop. I have changed the configuration of pbbuttonsd conf file, then tried to restart. # /etc/init.d/pbbuttonsd restart Restarting pbbuttonsd: No /usr/bin/pbbuttonsd found running; none killed. ERROR: Can't open mixer device [/dev/mixer]. No such file or directory Well, that is odd; anyway, I could set the device to dev/null. Been there done that, but the result was this: # /etc/init.d/pbbuttonsd start Starting pbbuttonsd: ERROR: Can't open mixer device [/dev/mixer]. No such file or directory I changed the "default" ALSA mixer device, too, to /dev/null, but the error is the same. I tried to force, but the result was the same: # pbbuttonsd -c /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf ERROR: Can't open mixer device [/dev/mixer]. No such file or directory INFO: Soundsystem requested: OSS and at least activated: none. pbbuttons _assumes_ I am using /dev/mixer, without reading the configuration file, which is wrong. Even if the reading was correct, ppbbuttons should not fail to load, if there is no sound system present. Pbbuttonsd should start even if there are errors; loosing data due to a battery drainage and no suspend/sleep/hibernation is more severe than not being able to control the sound volume. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc4-merci Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages pbbuttonsd depends on: ii hdparm 6.1-5 tune hard disk parameters for high ii libasound2 1.0.9-3 ALSA library ii libc6 2.3.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii makedev 2.3.1-78 creates device files in /dev Versions of packages pbbuttonsd recommends: pn laptop-mode-tools <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
