Like apparently many other people I had trouble getting sound to work. The mixer wouldn't set the right volume levels because /dev/mixer didn't exist. Running /etc/init.d/aumix by hand would get everything running. This gave me the impression that /etc/init.d/aumix was running too early. Specifically, it was running before /etc/init.d/hotplug which (presumably) "creates" the various sound devices. After adding 'after hotplug' in the depend() function of /etc/init.d/aumix everything booted smoothly and sound worked right away. (*) I may have just avoided some sort of race condition by moving the execution of /etc/init.d/aumix to a later point (i.e. maybe hotplug has nothing to do with all of this). (*) Is 'after hotplug' safe if a user doesn't use hotplug? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install a simple system (no KDE, GNOME, ..., but e.g. waimea) 2. Install aumix :-) (I actually forgot that...) 3. Start system Actual Results: Sound only possible after manually running '/etc/init.d/aumix start'. Expected Results: The sound should have worked right away. Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-ck4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-ck4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -mcpu=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -mcpu=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ rsync://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://212.219.247.17/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.16/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86" media-sound/aumix-2.8-r1 -gpm -gtk +gtk2 -nls
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1. Using "coldplug" seems to fix this 2. You need to replace the "use hotplug" statement in /etc/init.d/aumix (depend function) by "use coldplug" (Works for me)
