Re: 2.4.0 - sndstat not present

Christoph Hellwig (hch@caldera.de)
Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:45:37 +0100


On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:30:39AM -0500, Martin Laberge wrote:
> the reference to sndstat and /proc/sound was found in
>
> drivers/sound/soundcard.c

IIRC it is only in the changelogs - and I don't want to play Big Brother on
source files ...

> thanks for your lights on this topic...
>
> is there nothing i can use anymore to check existence of sound drivers
> in kernel...

Nothing sound specific, no.

>
> these informations were very valuables when i was configuring my cards
> for the first time... sometimes the driver loaded but do not appeared in
> sndstat
> then i was able to change my configuration according to what i see in
> sndstat...

The problem is that the PCI drivers don't support this feature anymore.
Not sure wether ALSA, which will bring a unified (in-kernel) sound-API
again has such a feature.

Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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