On 28/08/17 01:03, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 06:51:24 +0100
> Dave Turner <dave_t_turner@???> wrote:
>
>> I have a working devuan ascii with no systemd no dbus no udev and no
>> pulseaudio on my old iMac. (no X11 either, but we'll come to that)
> Very nice!
>
>> I installed eudev
> Did you install eudev simply by apt-get install udev? Were there any
> other steps?
>
>> and then I deleted /etc/init.d/udev and rebooted.
> This means that udev won't run on boot. Did /etc/init.d/eudev exist, or
> did you just not have a daemon?
>
> [snip]
>
>> For sound I installed flac, alsa-utils, and the ncurses media player
>> moc. alsa-utils includes alsa-mixer and that let me un-mute the
>> sound. And it works! I think the docs on alsa and sound on linux have
>> become divorced from reality over  the years, I know how to read and
>> follow instructions, I should have been able to do this years ago. I
>> had to do it by trial and error!
> Dave, a cool move on your part would be to document exactly how you did
> the setup described in the preceding paragraph. Until Devuan gets their
> documentation act together, I'd suggest publishing your documentation
> on a website controlled by you, so that it's permanent. A whole heck of
> a lot of people want to have a simple, no-nonsense sound setup like you
> describe. I'm one of them.
>
> SteveT
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I have written up most of what I have done. I was thinking that
dev1galaxy.org was the best place to put it.

The web-browser on my iMac is dillo which is fast and light and nice to
use for many things - and utterly useless for other things so Palemoon
will be the next install, followed by VLC so I can watch DVDs again. I
fully expect my system will get polluted by systemd and probably
pulseaudio too, we'll see!

DaveT