[Alsa-user] /dev/snd/seq still DNE

[Brian D. <job...@ya...>]

 
right now i'm experiencing this same misfortunate lack of /dev/snd/seq on both of my mandrake 10.1 machines. however, right now i'm more concerned with getting seq24 to run on my laptop, so i'll start there.
 
>Did you compile any of this from source, or did you just upgrade
>mandrake packages?
i compiled drv, lib, and util 1.0.8 from source for my ess 1969 solo-1.  the module is called es1938.  the compile instructions were helpful and explicit, and the process returned no errors.
 
>If that distro uses udev, 
i think it does, because it says "starting udev" durring boot.  is there another way to tell, or is that a deffinate yes?
>you may be able to do:
>/etc/init.d/udev restart
>to get your device nodes back.

this does nothing.
if i run the makedev script, /dev/snd/seq apears. but even if i chmod 777 it, seq24 will only start when i'm root. ???
if i understand the help files, i'm not supposed to need the makedev script for this version. so, whats up?
also, alsaconf gives me /dev/snd/seq. but it's gone after reboot.  there are two soundcards listed too, i think thats because the 1.0.6 version is still on my machine?  when i try to ude the package uninstall utility, it wants to take every program that uses alsa (like, all of KDE) with it.
any help on this would be greatly apreciated.
 


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