ALSA and CUPS issues

Aman9090 · 12-18-2003, 06:14 PM

Hey everyone,

I upgraded to Slack 9.1 and love it already. I have one thread going already on my graphics card issues, so here is where I am sticking my Audio and Printing issues

let's start with the audio - Sound simply doesn't work - I am runing a soundblaster audigy, which uses the emu10k1 modules to run. Here is what i get with 'modprobe emu10k1' -

Code:

 /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz: insmod emu10k1 failed

I'm sure I am just doing something stupid

Secondly, I need to configure my printer to work with CUPS. I don't even know where to begin, however - is there any place that someone can direct me to to show me how to set up my printer with CUPS?

All help is greatly appreciated - thanks in advance!

jharris · 12-18-2003, 06:34 PM

A brief search of the forums revealed lots of treads that might help your ALSA problem.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...der=descending

I'm in a similar situation since moving to 2.6, but I wasn't using ALSA before either. The link in this thread seems promising http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...highlight=ALSA

As for CUPS - what have you tried so far? http://locahost:631 ?

cheers

Jamie...

Aman9090 · 12-18-2003, 07:41 PM

I instead dowloaded the emu10k1 drivers from sourceforge.net

I followed the instructions fine, and everything worked. However, I can't understand why after I do 'make install' it works, but then it tells me to 'alias sound emu10k1' and when I do that, it gives me a nasty response:

Code:

bash-2.05b# cd /root/emu10k1-v0.20a
bash-2.05b# make
**
** The driver was succefully compiled, now install it with:
**   make install
**
bash-2.05b# make install
**
** The driver was succefully compiled, now install it with:
**   make install
**
mkdir -p //lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1
install -c -m 664 emu10k1.o //lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1
install -c -m 664 ac97_codec.o //lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/sound
/sbin/depmod -a 2.4.22
/sbin/modprobe -r emu10k1.o  ac97_codec.o 
**
** Driver install complete, to compile the tools type "make tools"
**
bash-2.05b# alias sound emu10k1
bash: alias: sound: not found
bash: alias: emu10k1: not found       #this is where I get stuck in the process of installing the emu10k1 drivers

Anyways, so I am having some troubles there. When I do 'modprobe emu10k1' and then 'lsmod' emu10k1 is listed but is not listed as being used. What do I do?

As for CUPS, again I have no idea where to even begin! I installed the packages at the install of Slack 9.1, but I don't quite know what to do as far as configuring it. Where are the docs for CUPS? How do I install it? Is it already installed and i just have to configure it? If so, how?

I am a bit of a

so bear with me...

h3pc4t · 12-18-2003, 10:40 PM

Did you run alsaconf? ALSA should handle the aliasing/loading of modules - there's absolutely NO reason to compile your own driver for something included with ALSA.

What I would recommend doing is, first, reinstalling the alsa-driver package (although it looks like you might have to upgrade to kernel 2.4.23, since the 1.0.0rc2 packages are compiled against it, and not 2.4.22). Then, run 'alsaconf' - which should detect your sound card, modify /etc/modules.conf correctly, and load the proper kernel modules.

mpegler · 12-18-2003, 10:46 PM

The 'alias' command should go into '/etc/modules.conf' as 'alsa' is calling 'sound' not 'emu10k1'.

CUPS has a web configuration page 'http://localhost:631' as stated. There is also a script to make executable '/etc/rc.d/rc.cupsd' so the daemon starts at boot.

h3pc4t · 12-19-2003, 04:19 AM

Regarding CUPS ... check the lpr, lp, lpstat, etc symlinks. They might be pointing at LPRng instead (which happens if you do a full install, since LPRng gets installed second).

franky · 12-19-2003, 05:15 AM

Uninstall LPRng and CUPS should works.
Type in mozilla:
http://localhost:631
it's all

h3pc4t · 12-19-2003, 07:36 AM

Nope, uninstalling LPRng will still leave the bad symlinks. Uninstalling LPRng and reinstalling CUPS will do the trick.

Aman9090 · 12-19-2003, 01:58 PM

ok thanks guys

I installed and upgraded the alsa drivers through slapt-get and I was able to run alsaconf - it didn't detect my sound card, however. I will take your advice about putting that command into /etc/modules.conf

thanks

I will get back with updates.

DaOne · 12-19-2003, 05:27 PM

Is parport_pc module loaded? Do lsmod and see if it's loaded. If not, modprobe parport_pc, then try to add the printer in the CUPS browser...http://localhost:631.

Aman9090 · 12-19-2003, 10:17 PM

Thanks, I can now get into the CUPS browser. How can I find out what my password and username is, though? Because right now I can't do any config because it asks me for a password and username that i do not know.

Thanks for this help, I really appreciate it

Sound is an other issue, however

thegeekster · 12-20-2003, 04:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Aman9090
Thanks, I can now get into the CUPS browser. How can I find out what my password and username is, though? Because right now I can't do any config because it asks me for a password and username that i do not know....

root user and passwd.....