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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
> 
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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

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