[Pardus-devel] Most recent alsa PiSi packages in the devel repository broken?

[Jesse Feddema]

Hello,

As this is the first time that I post to this mailinglist (actually  
the first time I ever used a mailinglist) I thought it'd be suitable  
to introduce myself. I am Jesse Feddema, a 16 years old christian boy  
from the Netherlands. I started using Pardus just a few days ago, but  
I already have some experience with other distros (LFS, Suse,  
Fedora...). I like being creative and I like to help people :). This  
time, however, I'd love to be helped, as I'm having the following  
problem:

I recently built and installed the devel versions of the alsa family  
and some other required packages. To do that, I used the following  
commands:

sudo pisi bi <url of the pspec.xml>
sudo pisi it <package created by the previous command>

The following list contains the names of the pisi files generated by  
the pisi bi commands I executed:

alsa-driver-1.0.14_rc3-19.pisi
alsa-firmware-1.0.14_rc3-7.pisi
alsa-headers-1.0.14_rc3-12.pisi
alsa-lib-1.0.14_rc3-17.pisi
alsa-oss-1.0.12-5.pisi
alsa-tools-1.0.14_rc3-1.pisi
alsa-utils-1.0.14_rc2-21.pisi
fxload-0.0_20020411-1.pisi
kernel-2.6.18.8-82.pisi
kernel-headers-2.6.18.8-82.pisi
kernel-source-2.6.18.8-82.pisi

I used the pspec.xml files from http://svn.pardus.org.tr/pardus/devel/  
. After installing them and rebooting to the new kernel version, I  
wanted to try using fxload ans usx2yloader to get my Tascam US-122  
working. However, usx2yloader complained "usx2yloader: cannot open  
hwdep hw:1". I thought I should have a look at /proc/asound/cards, but  
it turned out that the whole /proc/asound directory had vanished.  
Also, when I tried to manually load some alsa kernel modules, modprobe  
claimed that they didn't exist. This makes me think that the kernel  
part of alsa is broken. Could this be a bug? Or did I forget to  
install an important package? Any other possible cause(s)?

Thanks in advance,

Jesse Feddema