[Eug-lug] esound and devfs?

T. Joseph CARTER knghtbrd at bluecherry.net
Fri Aug 6 11:21:00 PDT 2004


On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:14:24AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
> I just saw mention that devfs might be deprecated.  Anyone know about
> this?  If that's my problem, maybe I shouldn't be using it at all.  I
> thought devfs was the new way to do /dev.

devfs is being replaced by udev in 2.6.  The response you already got
about snd_pcm_oss holds for ALSA, though.  Another superior alternative
would be to get ALSA-native esound packages.


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