-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 December 2001 7:14 am, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:59, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am struggling a bit with devfsd and could do with some help ... > Create a new file /etc/modutils/mysound containing something like the > following: > alias /dev/sound sound-module
Thank you very much - worked a treat. Just one question - since I don't understand the logic of whats happening. When does devfsd make the compatibility link with /dev/dsp ? What I thought was happening was something makes a request to a sound module, this causes the kernel module loader to call modprobe. Modprove looks in the alias file for /dev/sound and finds my sound card (emu10k1) which then loads into memory. The sound card registers itself which causes devfsd to create the compatibility links. The problem I am struggling with (and why I didn't attempt your solution) is the chicken and egg problem of the access to /dev/dsp being the thing that needs to trigger the module load. What have I missed? The reason I need to understand (and what actually triggered me off in this direction in the first place), is that I have a similar problem with my cdroms. I actually have a ide dvd drive on what previously would have been /dev/hdd, and a cdrom (cd - writer) on a scsi card. Previously I had symlinked /dev/dvd to /dev/hdd and /dev/cdrom to /dev/sr0 (scsi had been compiled in to the kernel - but was delaying the boot sequence for 15 secs whilst scanning the scsi bus and timing out). I had built scsi as module and all had stopped working. Also I had never managed to get cd writing to work, and had decided to make a push to sort this out. I assume the correct thing to do for the dvd (is put a file in /etc/devfs/conf.d with a line like) LOOKUP ^dvd$ GLOBAL symlink --- [I have a /dev/dvd entry in /etc/fstab to mount the dvd drive] But since my IDE CD driver is a module I see the same chicken and egg problem of not knowing where to link it to. [As I am writing this do I perhaps need an alias /dev/dvd ide-cd in /etc/modutils/aliases followed by an update-modules?] I have not made a start on understanding my scsi problems - these seem to be multilayered - as far as I can see. I think I need to get the the aic7xxx module set up to load (perhaps alias /dev/somthing aic7xxx - but what - depends on the usage) - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8FI7y1mf3M5ZDr2kRAp63AJ9hh9jDOFxuYhin3FpteoifqXyLAwCdHwBo ulfWq3vHfa/po2k37GcUn5Y= =au+C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
