[Libdlo] Getting things up on CentOS

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Jan 20 06:59:02 PST 2010


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:35:20AM +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> Bernie Thompson wrote:
> > For those who haven't looked closer at his link, Alexander has done a bunch
> > of great work for the multiseat scenario on Redhat.  The automatic ALSA_CARD
> > configuration, for example, is something that's not present in the earlier
> > multiseat scripts and is useful across distros.  Will make sure all the new
> > stuff gets ported back.
> > 
> 
> It's worth mentioning that the ALSA stuff is not very robust. I manually create
> a symlink to /sys under /dev/usbseat/X/sound so that I know which is the sound
> device attached to particular seat. I'm not using vendor/product ids for that
> because those are not detected consistently every time, i.e. do not generate
> udev events. Upon first boot you may end-up without sound device. I read that
> this is a bug in udev probably but didn't have much time to investigate.

That sounds strange to me, I have never heard of such a bug in udev, and
any more information you might have about this would be very good to
know.

thanks,

greg k-h


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