[ILUG] devfs and audio

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, John P. Looney wrote:

>  es1371 based. Mixer & DSP work. /dev/audio used to, before I used devfs.
> Do I need to add anything to my /etc/modules.conf ? Actually, I also have
> to modprobe es1371.o manually now - it's not doing it automatically
> anymore either. Currently, it has:
> 

have you got devfsd? you can use that to fix your module loading
problem. 

the audio thing.. there must be a module that hasn't
loaded, sure es1371 is the only module you need? 

(what is /dev/audio anyway? same hardware channel as dsp, but different
audio format accepted by that device or something, right?)

> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias snd-card-0 es1371
> alias sound es1371
> alias sound-service-0-0 es1371
> alias sound-service-0-1 es1371
> alias sound-service-0-2 es1371
> alias sound-service-0-3 es1371
> alias sound-service-0-4 es1371
> alias sound-service-0-5 es1371
> alias sound-service-0-6 es1371
> 

wow that's a lot of aliases for your soundcard.. is this alsa? 

>  In it...
> 
> Kate
> 
>