[ale] udev doesn't create device (no sound)

[Jim Philips]

On Wednesday 27 July 2005 06:12 pm, Jim Philips wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 July 2005 10:54 am, Marvin the Martian wrote:
> > Jim Philips wrote:
> > >I'm running Slackware current with KDE 3.4.1. I can't start artsd,
> > > because when I try, I get this error:
> > >
> > >Error while initializing the sound driver:
> > >device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
> > >
> > >The rules for udev appear to have a rule for creating the device here:
> > >
> > >KERNEL="dsp",                   NAME="sound/%k", SYMLINK="%k",
> > > GROUP="audio", MODE="0662"
> > >
> > >But nothing id getting created at all, so I have no sound devices and
> > >therefore no sound. Is there any help on dealing with this? I googled
> > > all over the place and came up with a hodgepodge of answers that don't
> > > relate to ny system at all.
> >
> > Usually, running alsaconf will find your soundcard and create the
> > device(s) you need automagically.   Have you done this?
>
> Oh...about a dozen times. But I don't think that does anything to trigger
> device creation by udev. And it hasn't changed anything at all.

I finally figured it out. I looked through dmesg and found messages about 
module incompatibilities related to GCC version. That got updated recently 
when I ran swaret. So, I rebuilt the modules and reinstalled them and all is 
okay now.