Date: 12 Mar 2001 17:25:13 -0500 From: Derek Tattersall <dlt@mebtel.net> To: thomas@hentschel.net Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mixer not working anymore Message-ID: <86lmqar5fa.fsf@lorne.arm.org> In-Reply-To: <200103120648.f2C6m9M19020@falcon.home.hentschel.net> References: <200103120648.f2C6m9M19020@falcon.home.hentschel.net>
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thomas@hentschel.net writes: > On 11 Mar, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:10:03PM -0800, thomas@hentschel.net wrote: > >> On 11 Mar, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 12:16:05PM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > >> >> I cvsup'ed tonight, rebult world and now my mixer device isn't working. > >> >> Anyone else having similar problems? > >> > > >> > >> you give too little info to see if it's applicable here, but I had a > >> similar problem a few weeks ago on -stable. Actually removing the > >> device entries in /dev and rebuilding them with MAKEDEV helped it. > > > > Note that if you run mergemaster and it updates the MAKEDEV script it > > even reminds you to rerun it. > > > > Kris > > well, the problem wasn't re-running MAKEDEV (which I did, of course, > and this had me puzzled for a few minutes). One had to remove (as in rm) > the dev entries and then run MAKEDEV, which wasn't spelled out anywhere > in the process. There's a subtle difference.... > > -Th > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > I wasn't aware that one had to delete all the devices before one reruns MAKEDEV. What happens if you don't do the deletion first? I have been religously following the directions from mergemaster and everything works fine, no problems noted. But then the system is pretty simple, no corner cases to worry about. -- Derek Tattersall dlt@mebtel.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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