I am running devfs with devfsd (because I thought it was the way things were going in the 2.4 kernels). I can't seem to get my soundcard to work and I am beginning to think it may be a problem related to devfs because I don't have the device /dev/sndstat.
I have an ASUSmb with a CMI8738 sound chip on the board. I have compiled in support for the drivers for this chip. They load OK when I run xmms - here is part of lsmod output: cmpci 24592 0 (autoclean) soundcore 4112 2 (autoclean) [cmpci] Here is part of my /etc/modules.conf file: alias char-major-14 cmpci alias /dev/sound cmpci #C-Media CMI8738 3D alias /dev/audio /dev/sound alias /dev/mixer /dev/sound alias /dev/dsp /dev/sound alias /dev/dspW /dev/sound alias /dev/midi /dev/sound When I check through my /dev directory, I see that /dev/sndstat is not there. Here is all I have: crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 1 1970 /dev/sound/dsp crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/sound/mixer with /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer being symlinked to the above. I have already tried doing cat file.au > /dev/dsp, cat file.wav > /dev/dsp and running aumix to set volumes etc. All these tests including xmms seem to run fine - no errors reported but there is absolutely no sound from my speakers. Does anyone know how to set up sound with devfs? Do I need this /dev/sndstat? Should I ditch devfs? Thanks for any suggestions. Mark.
